Adoption
Adoption accounts for a little less than half of the outcomes for foster care cases in the foster care system. Adoption from foster care is always complicated, but has the potential to be beautiful when adoptive families adoptive families strive to make space for the trauma and honor the child’s biological family, whatever that looks like.
A powerful story of a mom who chose to give her daughter up for adoption, the impact of having an open adoption, and her desire to support other children in foster care now as an adult.
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This is a thorough article on trauma caused by separation from biological parents that is seen in children who are adopted.
Read this article here.
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Another powerful article. Click here to read.
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This article documents the important reasons to retain relationships with biological parents. Click here to read the article.
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This is an article written from an adoptive mom offering some ideas on open adoption! Click here.
This video briefly explains attachment wound for newborns who are removed at birth.