Larger	Raising Adopted Children: A Manual for Adoptive Parents Author: Lois Ruskai Melina
	Book Information Publisher: Harper & Row Book Type: Paperback Rating: 8 ISBN-13: 9780060960391 - ISBN-10: 0060960396 Publication Date: 7/1986 Pages: 288 Book Reviews

This unique resource covers circumstances important to all adoptive parents, however they choose to adopt. Lois Melina -- an adoptive parent, journalist, lecturer, and editor of Adopted Child, the foremost adoption newsletter -- draws on adoption research in child development, psychology, sociology, and medicine and the experiences of adoptive families to provide practical, authoritative advice not found in other child care manuals. She discusses questions such as:

*When -- and how -- do I tell my child she's adopted?
*What should schools be told about our adopted child?
*How will attachment grow between our child and us?
*How can adoption make adolescent upheavals more complicated?
*How does infertility affect our role as adoptive parents?

Raising Adopted Children is a comprehensive source of information and intelligent support for all adoptive families and concerned professionals.