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Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the adopted child

	Price: £14.99	Crossroad Publishing Co. (USA) 1993 ISBN 978-0-8245-1514-0

‘Here are insights no adoptive parent can do without. Better get two copies – one for you, one for the grandparents. Highly recommended.’ PACT – An Adoption Alliance

‘Are they real brothers and sisters?’, ‘Do you know who your real mum is?’ Contrary to the pejorative way many people use the term “real”, adoptive parents and their adopted children are each other’s real family. Making that family work and nurturing all of its members to be healthy individuals in rewarding relationships with one another is what this book is all about. The authors take parents and professionals through the stages of child development, explaining what adopted children at each age commonly think and feel about adoption and how parents can respond.