Recent Adoption Blog | Family Dynamics PostsConsiderations in Adopting When You Already Have Children: Shared or Different Heritagesby Pam Connell29 Jun 2008 02:58 AMIn the past days I've been writing about how your adoption decisions may be different when you have children already in your family to consider. Adopting When You Already Have Children: Travel Considerations, Part Threeby Pam Connell28 Jun 2008 03:03 PMWhen deciding whether your children should travel with you to pick up their new sibling, think about how your child or chidren will react to the settings and events you expect to be in and encounter. Considerations in Adopting When You Already Have Children: Travel, Part Twoby Pam Connell28 Jun 2008 12:49 PMIn deciding whether to take your children with you, consider the safety of the place to which you are traveling and the availability of aid in any emergency that may occur. Friends of mine initially planned to take their daughters on their trip to pick up their son. Considerations in Adopting When You Already Have Children: Emotional Riskby Pam Connell27 Jun 2008 05:37 PMI believe some types of adoption that would have been fine for us if we'd been adopting our first child are not fine for us now that we have other children. My last blogs have talked about birth order and spacing and safety issues. Here I will speak about emotional issues. Adoption Considerations when you Already Have Children: Safetyby Pam Connell27 Jun 2008 11:47 AMWhen you already have children, your adoption decisions will have to take them into account as well. In my last blog I mentioned the effect that spacing of children and adopting out of birth order can have on your family. Adopting When You Already Have Children: Birth Order and Spacingby Pam Connell27 Jun 2008 01:11 AMThere are a few differences when you adopt a second (or subsequent) child, whether your children are yours by birth or by adoption. Your proposed child will have a great effect on your other children, emotionally and in terms of your family's lifestyle. One Father's Adoption Commitmentby Pam Connell15 Jun 2008 01:35 AMHappy Father's Day to all the fathers out there-adoptive fathers, prospective adoptive fathers, biological fathers, adoptee fathers, birth fathers, grandfathers, uncles-all kinds of fathers! As I've mentioned before, sometimes men are reluctant about adopting. Just Like Momby Pam Connell12 Jun 2008 03:02 AMIn my last post I wrote about Meg's realization (or another step in the process of that realization) that she doesn't share my genes. Healthwise, she will find that a blessing in later years. But for now, I shouldn't have been surprised. All I have to do is think back to my own childhood. In the Genes?by Pam Connell10 Jun 2008 05:08 PMLast night my daughter was talking about how she wanted to be a mom someday. "But I'll probably have to take medicine," she said, making a face, "Because you have to take medicine and Grandma has to take medicine. Birds, Bees, and Fish: Sometimes the Topic Arises Earlier for Adopted Kidsby Pam Connell11 May 2008 07:29 PMI really hadn't planned to talk about reproduction with Meg for quite a while yet. Recent Blog Comments Pam Connell says... "Thanks for sharing this experience." In Star's Death Occasions a Reminder of When and How to Mention Adoption centraloregonmom says... "Thank you!" In Star's Death Occasions a Reminder of When and How to Mention Adoption |
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