In response to the Hansen case, EMK Press and other adoption professionals put together an article collection called Realistic Expectations: The First Year Home that can be freely downloaded at the following link: http://www.emkpress.com/realisticexpectations.html PEAR recommends that prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents help prepare themselves for parenting challenges by reading the 21 articles in the collection that span topics …
Category: Justin Hansen
Crises in Adoptions: Resources
PEAR State Directory and Guide to Health Professional license checks links updated on May 17, 2010Over the past year, PEAR has been researching resources for parents and children in crisis as part of the basic information to be included in our PEAR state directories. Due to the current demand for help, we are sharing this work-in-progress in the hopes that …
Crisis in Adoption
PEAR has been closely following the story of Justin Hansen, also known as Artyom Savelyev, and the reactions of groups both supportive and opposed to international adoption. Our hearts go out to Justin/Artyom and to all traumatized children. And, while PEAR does not condone the choice made by his mother and grandmother, many of us, as parents of traumatized children …