Real parents, real children: parenting the adopted child

1. Parenting Is Parenting

Or Is It?

2. Bonding: The Love Question

3. Grief and Loss

4. Identity and the Adopted Child

5. Pregnancy Without a Due Date: Preplacement and Postplacement Stress

6. On Moving Children

7. Growing Up Adopted: The Developing Child

8. Early Infancy: The First Six Months

9. The Older Infant

Separation and Individuation: Six to Thirty-six Months

10. The Preschool Years: Three to Five Years

11. Middle Childhood: Six to Ten Years

12. Adolescence: Eleven to Eighteen Years

13. School and the Adopted Child

14. Adoption Issues in Adulthood

15. On Being Family.