- Adoption Groups Provide Needed Support to Troubled Teens
Support groups specifically for adopted children are beneficial to teens whose issues directly relate to being adopted. more...
- Your Adopted Child Wants to Find His Biological Parents - Now What?
While not all children will want to come face-to-face with the parents that gave them up for adoption, there is a good chance that your adopted child will have a natural curiosity about his parents. more...
- Making the Holidays Easier for Your Adopted Children
For adopted children, the holidays may be a time of unanswerable questions, a feeling of disconnection and a sense of emptiness. more...
- Body Image across Cultures
The way that people view their bodies varies throughout cultures and ethnicities. more...
- About Reactive Attachment Disorder
Children with reactive attachment disorder struggle to forge emotional attachments to others, often because of serious disruptions in their early relationships. In most cases, specialized treatment programs can help these children develop meaningful connections with the world around them. more...
- Help! My Child Has Been Diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder
There are a number of therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers, and wilderness therapy programs that specialize in treating children and teens with Reactive Attachment Disorder. more...
- Does Adoption Spell Troubles for Teens?
All kids struggle in adolescence, but do adopted teens struggle more? Although most adopted teens lead healthy, stable lives, studies have shown that they are at "slightly increased risk" for behavioral problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or oppositional defiant disorder. more...
- Where Did I Come From? What do I say to my kids about donor-assisted reproduction?
Children do best when they know where they come from; that refers to both a genetic history as well as a relationship history. Feelings of betrayal are stimulated when secrets are kept and then inevitably found out. So the first step in considering what, how, when and even if to talk your children is to examine your own feelings. more...
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