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For Adopted Children and Teens

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• Adoption - A Child's Questions and Concerns

  Learn about the kinds of questions adopted children often ask, from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Do your best to answer questions honestly and in a way that will be easy for your child to understand at his age. It is important to develop trust between you and your child.

• Being Adopted

  Adoption means a legal process that allows someone to become the parent of a child, even though the parent and child are not related by blood.

• Foster Families

  The word "foster" means to help someone (or something) grow and develop. It also means to take care of someone's needs. Foster parents, then, are people - other than a kid's parents - who provide a safe place for kids to be cared for. They take kids into their homes and let them stay for a while.

• TeensHealth

  Adoption is the welcoming of a child who has been born to other parents into a new family. Birth parents have many different reasons for putting children up for adoption; most decide that they want better lives for their children than they feel they can provide.