Adopting and Parenting Older Adoptive or Foster Children

Learn more about how to conduct this first family meeting, the questions to ask, and how to use it to get to know your new foster or adoptive children.

The older child adoption can be very rewarding and challenging. Find ideas on the top challenges presented in an older child adoption.

When adopting an older child, establishing yourself as a parent can be a daunting task, especially if you are a first time parent or a younger person. Here are some tips to help.

So, your child is searching for birth parents. Should an adoption reunion always be bad news for adoptive parents? Some adoptees and birth parents feel that adoptive parents have no place in an adoption reunion. How would you feel if your child was searching for birth parents?

Several fun reasons why parenting teenagers may be the right choice for your family.

Written by adult adoptee Patty Schlossberg.

An article written by the grandmother of three older, adopted children.

Troubled teens that were infants when adopted domestically suffer from more mental health needs than non-adopted teens. Internationally adopted teens fair much better than domestic adopted teens. An interesting study looks at troubled teens.

Social Media - Adoption Reunions Are Becoming Easier Thanks to Social Media

Throwing a foster or adopted child into the complex world of navigating contact with birth family via social networking, maintaining confidentiality, as well as keeping emotions in check. Well, it's just a lot to handle for anyone at any age. Here are some quick tips on how to handle social networking and your child.

Fast and easy activities to promote bonding between you and your teen foster or adopted daughter. These activities also include ideas that incorporate physical touch.

Fast and easy activities to promote bonding between you and your teen foster or adopted son. These activities also include ideas that incorporate physical touch.

The thought of raising teenagers is scary for most parents, but if you're going to have children, then it's logical to assume that one day they will become teens. But there are crazy, awesome, loving, brave souls out there that go and choose to raise teenagers - on purpose! These valiant parents choose to skip the cute baby and toddler stage and...

Kids will fight. It's just a part of growing up. There also may be rivalry between siblings. That also seems to be a part of life. However, it seems that sibling rivalry is a bit trickier to handle when the fighting is among foster siblings or between an adopted child and an adoptive parent's birth child. How do you handle sibling rivalry and...