By Cai Graham Rethink Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-78133-250-4, 200 pages, $16.99 I don’t have children myself, let alone teenagers, but I certainly remember what it was like to be one: The seemingly constant arguing, the […]
Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2015, PG, 103 minutes, $24.99 When 12-year-old foster child Anna Sasaki collapses at school from an asthma attack, her long-time foster mother sends her away from the big […]
By Katie Naftzger Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-78592-701-0, 160 pages, $17.95 When parenting adopted teens, parents often wonder whether certain behaviors are typical of teens or somehow related to their child’s adoption. As they […]
By Rachel Staff Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-84905-604-5, 250 pages, $19.95 What parent doesn’t need advice for raising teenagers? Now the “Parenting Adopted Teenagers” book is a new resource for parents doing just that. […]
by Richard J. Gelles Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-19-061801-8, 186 pages, $27.95 I was excited to get my copy of Richard Gelles’ widely awaited new book, “Out of Harm’s Way.” Gelles is one of […]
Songwriters create album to raise awareness about foster care When he was just a few weeks old, Kyle Hutton was adopted from DePelchin Children’s Home in Houston. Raised in a loving adoptive family, it was […]
J. Cortez III was just 16 years old when he proved to the court he was independent and could be legally emancipated from his mother, though he’d been on his own since he was 12. […]
A multitude of recent studies strengthen the case for dogs in therapy and Calo Programs, an innovative behavioral health organization, has taken the use of canines to a whole other level. A new study conducted […]
By Leah Kuypers, Think Social Publishing, 2011, ISBN: 978-0982523165, $47.99 For many adopted children, development has been mediated by complex childhood trauma. The major symptoms of developmental trauma are “mixed maturity:” difficulties with self-regulation of […]
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) came about because the federal government and states had a long history of treating Native American parents as unfit just by their being Indian. (America’s indigenous people refer to […]
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