Sentences with phrase «of adoptive children»

Placement of adoptive children, with a full range of services including adoptive family assessment, counseling and finalization.

All three of my adoptive children have been challenging in terms of behaviour on and off over the years.

Parents of adoptive children may struggle with issues relating to supporting their child's identity formation.

Failure by the Cabinet to approve a prospective adoptive parent who meets the requirements of 922 KAR 1:100, Agency Adoptions, and 922 KAR 1:350, Family Preparation, for the placement of an adoptive child.

If the adoptive parents feel they have been wrongly denied benefits on behalf of an adoptive child, they have the right to a fair hearing at any time.

The agency works with any applicant, birth parent or on behalf of an adoptive child regardless of race, ethnicity or national origin.

Applicants are required to have an approved home study, and are evaluated on a set criteria which includes financial need; special needs of the adoptive child; and family circumstances.

Not exact matches

Truthfully, any child showing up in someone's home via adoptive or biological means is nothing short of a miracle.

When adoptive parents recount their emotions, their struggles, their worries and their faith, the clear theme emerges of receiving a child as a gift from God.

And very early the adoptive parent realizes that the methods of training this child must obey a greater source than flesh and natural conception.

This was never really an issue for me: My adoptive parents — both of whom are around a foot shorter — gave me all the love any child requires.

For three years, my wife has been a stay - at - home mom to over 20 foster children under the age of six, one adoptive son, two soon - to - be daughters, and a soon - to - be son.

And maybe in your State it's a two year wait but here in California there are children waiting to be adopted, though I can say that there is still a year or more process of vetting the adoptive parents to make sure they are not just using the kids as a means of financial support while locking them in a basement.

Now there may not be a large supply of newborn infants which are what most adoptive parents want and they may have to wait 2 years for the child of their dreams, but if any parents out there have a safe caring home to share with some orphaned children you do not have to wait 2 years, so don't sell your lies here.

Since there are so many couples (infertile or not) who would like to adopt, and since there are so many thousands of children needing adoptive parents, surely it serves the better part of wisdom to give our attention to making adoption a more viable option.

At the same time, the whole process of creating an adoptive family raises many concerns about identity and belonging; concerns not unlike those we are all faced with: Three professionals who work with adoptive families (Anderson, Piantanida, and Anderson, 1993) list the questions about identity and belonging that an adopted child will likely have as she or he reaches adolescence:

Krish Kandiah, founder and director of the charity, was joined by foster carers, adoptive parents, adopted children, and care leavers to present postcards from foster carers, adopters, and supporters all over the country asking the Prime Minister to prioritise care for vulnerable children.

Homosexual adoption thus risks aggravating the trauma of the abandoned child, for the generational chain would be doubly broken: first in the reality of the child's abandonment, and second, symbolically, in the fact of the homosexuality of the adoptive parents.

DCF is always seeking adoptive families to parent children from all backgrounds and of every age.

One of the joys I have found is that with all six of my children, I see no difference in skin color and no difference between biological and adoptive.

We welcome adoptive families of all races, religions, ancestries, national origins, ages, sexual orientation, and genders as long as at their core is the ability to love, care for, and support a child.

During the ceremony, the adoptive families held hands around the living room of the orphanage, while the nannies held the children in the center of the circle and said a few words about each of them.

Yet, adoptive parents, while thoroughly scrutinized by adopting agencies, are often given little information about their adopted child, in terms of family history or specific parenting skills that will help their adopted children develop strong emotional attachments.

Some of the adoptive parents who have children waiting to come home from Haiti right now have banded together to start the Food Freight for Foyer campaign to ship a 40 foot container filled with food to Port au Prince.

If you adopt a child from foster care, you're eligible for a monthly government subsidy — an average of $ 846 a month, according to Adoptive Families.

Children Awaiting Parents provides training services for parents and child welfare professionals that include recruitment and retention of adoptive families, how to navigate the education system, managing adolescent behavior techniques and how to advocate for special needs services.

Families Supporting Adoption Serving birth families, adoptive families, children and all friends of adoption.

The Ties Program is a travel program for adoptive families who would like to visit their child's country of birth, and travel in a supportive environment with other adoptive families.

Judy M. Miller, MA, author of What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween, is an adoptive parent and adoption advocate living in the Midwest with her husband and four children.

«Both girls were allegedly whipped by the their adoptive parents with a quarter - inch plumbing supply line — the instrument suggested by Michael and Debi Pearl, founders of No Greater Joy Ministries and authors of the controversial religious parenting book «How to Train Up a Child.»»

For many hopeful adoptive parents, being matched with a child is the most dreaded part of the adoption process.

And we will always celebrate the birth mothers and adoptive mothers who give life and hope to the children of our world.

Research supports that adopted children, birth parents and adoptive parents benefit from some level of openness.

Prior to the child's adoption, the adoptive and birth parents mutually agree upon the level of openness — the frequency of communication, correspondence, and contact.

The percentage of domestic and international adoptions represented in CAFFA is almost equal, with many families consisting of both biological and adoptive children.

There is selfish reason for that — the adopted child will one day come to know and understand all these, and what will they think of us, the adoptive parents, if we had not thought enough to alleviate the pains of the first mom.

CAP's website, www.ChildrenAwaitingParents.org, provides photos, narratives and videos of waiting children, in addition to pre - and post-adoption information for prospective foster and adoptive parents.

Every adoptive family and each adopted child brings with them an inspiring story of hope and courage.

A style of parenting called Attachment Parenting helps adoptive parents and adopted children establish a strong bond fairly easily.

There are specifics that need to be taken care of in order for both parties and the child to live successful, healthy lives, but these little nuggets of advice can make the awkward conversation of where your child came from a lot easier to handle and a lot easier for adoptive children to understand.

There are many uses for such a questionnaire, such as: a) helping place at - risk children (e.g., abused, neglected, diagnosed) with safe and nurturing parents, b) potentially reducing the number of failed adoption placements, c) protecting children from at - risk adults, and d) screening foster / adoptive families to reduce the possibility of abuse and / or neglect.

We have an interview with Mark Browne (bass player for Melissa Etheridge), adoptive father of a child with Asperger's Syndrome.

Such a little thing — but in order to achieve it, she went against the wishes of the child's adoptive parents, her superiors, and the prison authorities, all of whom thought she was wasting her, and their, time.

What could meditation mean to an adoptive father sitting alone at midnight, pondering what was happening to the peace of his home, the safety of his other children, and the intimacy he used to share with his wife?

The painful lessons of the past have finally broken through the walls of ignorance, shedding new light and giving renewed hope to adoptive parents who have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of children in need.

There is no contact between the birth parents and the adoptive parents before or after placement and no on - going information of the child is shared.

She is honored to watch birth and adoptive parents cultivate and nurture healthy open adoption relationships that meet the ongoing needs of the child.

She loves engaging with families and children as they process a deep array of emotions, and she highly values the cutting edge information, education, and research brought to staff, adoptive parents and birth parents.

The analysis also compared children who were raised by adoptive mothers to children who were raised by their biological mothers in an effort to tease out the influence of genetics and parenting styles on any link between prenatal smoking and behavior.

I can say from experience that a surrendering / placing mother can completely empathize with what adoptive parents feel when... there is another mother, another set of parents that your child is going to live with and you need to be «happy» about it.