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Adopting the Older Child
Adopting the Older Child
Author: Claudia L. Jewett
ISBN-13: 9780916782092
ISBN-10: 0916782093
Publication Date: 5/1979
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Hundreds of thousands of children in this country are without permanent homes right now, waiting in foster homes and institutions for families who could adopt them. Here, in "a book that workers and parents have been waiting for" (Child Welfare), nationally know family counselor and adoptive parent Claudia Jewett explains just what is in store for those who decide to open their hearts to a waiting child.

About the Author
Claudia Jewett Jarratt, a nationally known family therapist, has raised ten children, seven of them adopted. She lives in Harvard, Massachusetts