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Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Adoption: What Children Need to Know
Fanny Cohen Herlem
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Description for Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Adoption: What Children Need to Know
Paperback. The author covers all the common questions that children ask about adoption and provides sensitive, candid answers in a way that children will be able to understand and relate to. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue, such as why a child is adopted, who chose the child's first name and what happens when the child grows up. Num Pages: 112 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
Why was I abandoned?
Why did my parents adopt me?
What if I want to meet my biological parents?
Children who find out they are adopted have many questions that are difficult for a parent to answer. This book explores children's thoughts and feelings and provides parents with guidance on how to respond to difficult questions.
The author covers all the common questions that children ask and provides sensitive, candid answers in a way that children will be able to understand and relate to. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue, such as why a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843106715
SKU
V9781843106715
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Fanny Cohen Herlem
Fanny Cohen Herlem is a child psychiatrist and medical director of the adoption service, `Doctors of the World'. She has been helping children and their parents in her practice for the past 25 years.
Reviews for Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Adoption: What Children Need to Know
This is a small, easy to read book...There are helpful chapters on how children might ask about looking different from their adoptive family or manage ambivalent feelings about their country of birth.
Youth in Mind This little book is written in a very accessible format; dealing with a range of questions that might arise about adoption, these matters are ... Read more
Youth in Mind This little book is written in a very accessible format; dealing with a range of questions that might arise about adoption, these matters are ... Read more