Cautionary Statement for Families Considering Special Needs and Older Child Adoption As the landscape of international adoption has changed over the past few years, we’ve seen an increasing number of families opening their homes and hearts to older children, sibling groups and children with special needs. We at PEAR are certainly heartened by this admirable trend but would be remiss …
Category: Pre-Adoption Education
PEAR releases Maryland State Directory of Adoption Resources
The 18th directory was released today. You can find the pdf on our website at http://www.pear-now.org/resource/MD_Adoption-Resource-Directory.pdf PEAR State directories can be used by prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents looking to find information on health, education, bureaucratic/paperchasing needs and for support for themselves or their children. Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform (PEAR) does not officially endorse any listing in this …
MEDIA: When Adopted Can’t Adapt
PEAR originally posted the full text of this article on our blog June 19, 2010. On Tuesday, June 22, we received a take down demand from the author Katie Pickert. Although we believe that our posting was fair use as it was published as part of our educational series, Crisis in Adoption, we are respecting the wishes of Ms. Pickert …
RESOURCE: EMK Press Article Collection
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 …
RESOURCE: Double Traumatized Children from Haiti
We are passing on the link to this discussion for all families who are adopting children from Haiti after the earthquake. PEAR strongly advocates pre-adoption education and post adoption support in all adoptions. The issue of trauma is important in developing attachment, understanding the implications of trauma on the developing child should be a basic requirement for adoption parenting. We …