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Fall/Winter 2007
Teens Need Unconditional Commitment
How can we help teens in foster care?
Pat O’Brien says, “Stick with them through thick and thin.”
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Spring/Summer 2007
My Advice to Foster Parents
By
Jackie Hammers-Crowell
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Fall/Winter 2006
Youth and Their Adoptive Families Can Benefit By Maintaining Connections with Birth Families
Imagine that you’re a child. You’re taken away from the only family you’ve ever known, and over the next several years, you’re placed in one stranger’s home after another.
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Spring/Summer 2006
Families Are Forever
Adoptive Families Are Important Long After Childhood
Everyone needs a family. Younger people need families to provide for their basic needs, teach them skills, and encourage their development. Older people need families for support in the tough times – and a group to celebrate with in the good times.
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Fall/Winter 2005
Teens Need Families, Too
By Rose M. Garland, Adoption Consultant
One of the bigger misconceptions in our society-at-large is the belief that adoption brings more benefit to younger children than their elder counterparts. While younger children may seem more helpless and needy for a good parental figure, older children, including teenagers, are no less in need of a loving and stable home.
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May/June 2004
Preserving the Bond between Siblings
The emotional bond between siblings runs deep. For most of us, the relationships with our brothers and sisters will be the most enduring of our lives, outlasting our connections with our parents, children, and spouses. In many cases, our siblings support us at our most difficult times and understand us in a way that few other people do.
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September/October 2003
Teachers Need to Be More Sensitive to Adoption Issues
Adoptive parents often wonder if they should inform a teacher that a student is adopted.
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July/August 2003
Connecting Children With Families
You may be familiar with the Adoption Listing Service (ALS). This is one of the programs that the Adoption Information Center of Illinois (AICI) administers to help find permanent, loving families for children in foster care. Your family may even be registered with the ALS and seeking a child with our help.
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May/June 2003
The Value of Adoptive Parent Groups
Parenting has often been called the most complex profession. It becomes even more so when the family includes a child who has been adopted. This is true whether the child is an infant, has special needs, or is of a different race or ethnic background.
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March/April 2003
Siblings Are Family, Too
Brothers and sisters are such an important part of any family. Who better to fight with, share with, tattle on, protect, torment, and confide in? Siblings share our experiences - the good times and the bad.
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