Lori Holden

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption (eBook, PDF)

Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering. There are many resources on why to do open adoption, but what about how? Open adoption isn't just something parents do when they exchange photos, send emails, share a visit. It's a lifestyle that may feel intrusive at times, be difficult or inconvenient at other times. Tensions can arise even in the best of circumstances. But knowing how to handle these situations and how to continue to make arrangements work for the child involved is paramount. This book offers readers the tools and the insight to do just that. It covers common open-adoption situations and how real families have navigated typical issues successfully. Like all useful parenting books, it provides parents with the tools to come to answers on their own, and answers questions that might not yet have come up. Through their own stories and those of other families of open adoption, Lori and Crystal review the secrets to success, the pitfalls and challenges, the joys and triumphs. By putting the adopted child at the center, families can come to enjoy the benefits of open adoption and mitigate the challenges that may arise. More than a how-to, this book shares a mindset, a heartset, that can be learned and internalized, so parents can choose to act out of love and honesty throughout their child's growing up years, helping that child to grow up whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881877699
• Artikelnr.: 74846089

Autorenporträt

Lori Holden, a veteran parent of two young adults, writes at LavenderLuz.com and hosts the podcast Adoption: The Long View. She's the author of the acclaimed book The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole (recommended by People magazine in 2021), written with her daughter's birth mom and featured on adoption-agency required-reading lists across the country. She has keynoted and presented at adoption conferences around the US and Canada, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Parenting and Adoptive Families. In 2018, she was honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). She lives in Denver, Colorado.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: From fear to family: Parents come together
1: What is open adoption?
2: What to consider when choosing an agency or adoption professional
3: The parents (first- and adoptive-) in an open adoption
4: Guideposts from families who have traveled the path
Part Two: Orienting on the Child, Open Adoption's True North
5:Openness and the adoptee
6: Heading toward wholeness: integrating the child's biology and biography
7: Reality check: it's not always easy
8: Openness in foster, international and donor situations
9:Especially for birth parents and those who want to connect with them
10: Fare Well
Appendix A
Appendix B
Resources
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index