Telling the Truth To Your Adopted or Foster Child – Making Sense of the Past by Betsy Keefer and Jayne E Schooler was recommended by my children’s social worker. Almost all adopted children have difficult things in their pasts. Loving parents naturally want to shield children from painful discussions and they may unintentionally make things worse. Secrecy and withholding the truth can lead children to imagine a far worse scenario and/or feel shame about their past. Adult adoptees...
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