Catalogue by countries / The Limits of Hope: An Adoptive Mother's Story
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| ISS/IRC Code | COM-ADOPT ENG-021 |
| Partner | |
| Title | The Limits of Hope: An Adoptive Mother's Story |
| Author | LOUX Ann Kimble |
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| General information | |
| Date published/issue | 00-00-1997 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
| Place published | |
| Editor | |
| Publisher | The University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville and London |
| Distributor | |
| Page | 266 |
| Price | |
| ISBN | 0 8139 1710 7 |
| Type of material | Book |
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| Document information | |
| Document description |
Testimony |
| Country concerned |
UNITED STATES |
| Index |
Parental-rights-loss Child-health-info Failure-placement Special-needs-child Follow-up-adoption Attachment Prepa-adoption-paps |
| Free text | Testimony by an American adoptive mother. Lack of information and support from social services and lack of awareness of the challenge of adopting children with a past, complicated by an undetected genetic deficiency, adversely affects this family, already with biological children of their own, and inspires this mother to tell her story and the lessons learned over twenty years of struggle. In the words of the author: "A family's decision to adopt at-risk children cannot be equated with the decision to have a biological child or to adopt an infant. Adopting hard-to-place children is another category of raising children, and I believe we must beware of those who imply that there are no differences or who simplify the complexities." She dares to ask the question of whether a family environment is the best place for a seriously disturbed child, quoting a family therapist who had told her "she suspected that, for disturbed children, families were too intimate, too intrusive, too demanding." |
| Document qualification | |
| Degree of interest | Valuable |
| Work area |
Psychology Social work --> |
| Potential users | |
| Other potential users |
Adopt-Agency Adopt-Parents |