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About the Author | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Announcement | |
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Turning Loss into Gain | |
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Then "Why Am I Hesitating? | |
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Being Out of Control of "Making It Better" | |
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What to Say and What Not | |
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So You've Already Blown It | |
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Your Personal, Private Fears | |
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Isn't Adoption Really Just Long-Term Temporary Care? | |
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Bonding | |
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But They'll Be So Different from Us! | |
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What about Race? | |
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Can Older or Disabled Children "Fit"? | |
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Open Adoption? We Don't Want to Share! | |
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Will I Be the "Real Grandparent"? | |
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What If It Doesn't Work? | |
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How Adoption Works: The Facts vs the Myths | |
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"Just Relax: After Adopting, You'll Get Pregnant" | |
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How People Adopt | |
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Statistics | |
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The Kids | |
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The Cost | |
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Changing Practice�Open Adoption vs Confidential Adoption | |
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The Homestudy/Family Preparation | |
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Getting Ready | |
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The Wait | |
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International | |
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Special Needs Placements | |
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Domestic Infant Placement | |
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Respecting Privacy Boundaries | |
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Pregnant by Adoption | |
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Health Care for Expectant Adopters | |
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The Sympathetic Pregnancy | |
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Nesting | |
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They're Back? | |
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Practical Preparation�Expecting by Adoption | |
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Home at Last! | |
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Naming as Claiming | |
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Arrival Issues | |
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Circling the Wagons | |
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The Baby Blues | |
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Parenting in Adoption | |
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Age at Arrival Issues | |
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Infancy | |
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Toddlerhood | |
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Pre-School and Elementary School-Aged Kids | |
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Teens | |
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The Post-Institutionalized Child | |
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Adoption Issues through a Lifetime | |
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In Infancy and Toddlerhood | |
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At School | |
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In Adolescence | |
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In Adulthood | |
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Expanding the Family Culture | |
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Family Heritage�Stories, Traditions, and Heirlooms | |
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Understanding and Including Your Grandchild's Birthfamily | |
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Special Issues | |
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When You Were Adopted Yourself1 | |
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If You Were Adoptive Parents, Too | |
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When Your Kids Are New Parents at "Grandparent Age" | |
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When This Is a Second Marriage | |
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Foster Grandchildren | |
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Adoption and the Rest of the World | |
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Recognizing Adoptism�Your Own and Others' | |
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Adoption in the Media | |
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Adoption Language | |
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Adoption Awareness Month | |
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How You Can Learn More | |
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Books, Newsletters, Magazines | |
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Internet Sites | |
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Support Groups | |
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Conferences | |
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An Addendum: Top Five "Hot Buttons" Not to Push! (Or Open Mouth, Extract Foot) | |
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"What about the money?" (Didn't your mother teach you it 'was bad manners to talk about money, politics and religion?) | |
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"Adoption connections aren't real connections anyway!" (Do you really want to say "You can do better than this?") | |
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"Adoptedpeople are 'flawed."' (The bad seed myth or racism) | |
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"Didn'tyou know that..." (Ignorance isn't bliss in personal relationships) | |
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"Now you'll get pregnant! They always do." | |
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Index | |