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Talking about Adoption to your Adopted Child: A guide for parents by adoption  (4th edition)

	Price: £8.50	BAAF, 2007 ISBN 978 1 905664 26 9

This popular and comprehensive guide outlines the whys, whens and hows of telling the truth about an adopted child’s origins. Now in its fourth edition, Talking about adoption to your adopted child has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect current advice and good practice. It is the only guide of its kind in the UK.

Based on the experience and knowledge of many people who have been adopted, as well as adoptive parents, this book offers guidance on:

• Why telling your child is so important;
• What to tell your child and when;
• The responsibilities you face if your child is of a different ethnicity or from a different country;
• How adopted children and their birth parents feel;
• How to trace birth parents;
• Where you can get more help.

This new edition also includes more information on discussing adoption with older children; adoption support services; contact issues; foster carers who adopt; “mixed” families containing adopted, fostered and birth children; and step-families and the variety of brother and sister combinations that can occur as a result.

Talking about adoption to your adopted child is packed with practical ideas suitable for children of all ages. The wealth of information and advice is brought to life with case studies detailing the experiences of adoptive parents and adopted children, ensuring that this book will enable adoptive parents to help their adopted children understand about adoption.