CUANDO LOS NIÑOS NO VIENE DE PARIS

Recommended for adoptive parents and adoption professionals, this guide answers questions on many topics related to the adoption process and the integration of the adopted child into the new home.

It is undeniable that biological and adoptive families share essential aspects of raising children. However, adoptive families, in addition to the difficulties inherent in all parenting, must also consider the fact that our children's lives did not begin when we became part of them.

What do our children bring with them? How does the quality and duration of the period of institutionalization affect the establishment of a secure attachment? What influence do pre- and postnatal factors, such as malnutrition, alcoholism, environmental toxins, etc., have on school performance? Is there such a thing as post-adoption depression? Are we a family with a member of another ethnicity or a multiethnic family? What are the challenges and achievements of single-parent adoption? What do our children think about adoption?

How do they perceive the racist attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes of our