After Adoption Post-Legal Issues
Here we address some of the issues that usually arise after an adoption is legalized, or have an ongoing nature, such as the adoptee's search for identity, open special needs adoptions, large adoptive families, adoption disruption and dissolution, and parenting adult children.
Information about adoptee identity, adoption search and reunion, when adoptees or former foster children return to their birth families, and U.S. adoption search statistics.
Many adoptions of children with special needs are open, whether foster parents adopt their foster child, adoptees need ongoing contact with birth family members, or infants with special needs are adopted in open adoptions.
Unless a large sibling group is adopted at one time, adoptive families with five or more children are built over a period of time, usually over a decade or two after their first adoption. What motivates the adoptive parents in large families? Are they "collectors" of children? Are they saints? Crazy? Parents of many children will answer, "None of the above." Here's why.
Although only a small percentage of U.S. or international special needs adoptions go "wrong," some do. This section deals with problems resulting from poor matching of children to families, dishonesty among adoption specialists, ignorance, negligence, greed, or stupidity. Issues dealt with include false abuse allegations by foster or adopted children, adoption failure (disruption and dissolution), and wrongful adoption.
What happens when our kids grow up? Usually, we live more-or-less happily ever after. But our kids with special needs don't just outgrow them. Adults with physical, mental, or emotional challenges often need ongoing support and intervention. This section deals with issues such as blessing the adoptee's reunion and ongoing relationships with birth family members; finding long-term care for the severely disabled adoptee; having a chaotic or attachment-disordered adult child; and becoming a grandparent or guardian of your grandchild, among other issues.
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