Fanny Cohen Herlem

Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Adoption

What Children Need to Know

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author covers all the common questions that children ask about adoption and provides sensitive, candid answers in a way that children will be able to understand and relate to. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue, such as why a child is adopted, who chose the child's first name and what happens when the child grows up.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 141g
• ISBN-13: 9781843106715
• ISBN-10: 184310671X
• Artikelnr.: 23396494

Autorenporträt

Fanny Cohen Herlem is a child psychiatrist and medical director of the adoption service, `Doctors of the World'. She has been helping children and their parents in her practice for the past 25 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. 1. Why was I abandoned: could it happen again? 2. Why
have my parents chosen me? 3. How did my parents adopt me? 4. We're a
family now ? just like other people! 5. Everyone says I'm different! 6.
Where does my first name come from? 7. Who were my parents when I was born?
8. Where do I come from? 9. Sometimes it's hard to be adopted! 10. What
about when I grow up? 11. Will I be able to adopt a child when I grow up?
Appendix 1: A checklist for children. Appendix 2: A note for parents only.
Appendix 3: Useful websites.