Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent's Guide

by Lois Ruskai Melina

Book Overview

When to tell, What to tell, and How to tell

Children who are adopted have predictable and often unspoken concerns about themselves and how they joined their families. In this wise and timely guide, Lois Melina, author of the classic manual Raising Adopted Children, helps parents anticipate and respond to those concerns in ways that build self-esteem. Through sample conversations, reassuring advice, and age-specific activities parents will find...

• 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.