Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent's Guide

by Lois Ruskai Melina

Book Overview

"Provides many examples of ways to present difficult information in a sensitive manner--sensitive to the child's needs, to the birthparents' struggles, and to the adoptive parents' perspectives."
--Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060963190
• ISBN13: 9780060963194
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Like a "Dr. Spock" for adoption issues.

Excellent and extremely useful book. For example, the chapter on the Middle Childhood Years is entitled, "Why didn't they keep me?" and is full of useful advice about how to answer that critical and inevitable question.