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January 30, 2015
by Autumn Robinson, MA, PhD Candidate

emotionally negotiatingthe adoptive process

Emotionally Negotiating the Adoptive Process

January 30, 2015 07:55 by Autumn Robinson, MA, PhD Candidate  [About the Author]

emotionally negotiatingthe adoptive process
There is no doubt that adoption is an emotional process for families, from the initial decision to pursue adoption all the way through negotiating childrearing and adulthood. Adoption is not a simple process, but a complex series of interactions that can be frustrating and daunting. Emotionally fulfilling and at the same time taxing, adoptive families almost universally agree that it is an overall enriching life experience that they wouldn’t change. What’s perhaps most unexpected for families is how their experience of the process is emotionally so similar to that experience that their adoptive child experiences. [More]