Adopting the Older Child - Hardcover

Claudia L. Jewett

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9780916782085: Adopting the Older Child

Synopsis

Pros, cons, and how-to's for an increasingly popular option.

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From the Back Cover

Hundreds of thousands of children in this country are without permanent homes right now, waiting in foster homes and institutions for families who could adopt them. Here, in "a book that workers and parents have been waiting for" (Child Welfare), nationally know family counselor and adoptive parent Claudia Jewett explains just what is in store for those who decide to open their hearts to a waiting child.

About the Author

Claudia Jewett Jarratt, a nationally known family therapist, has raised ten children, seven of them adopted. She lives in Harvard, Massachusetts.

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9780916782092: Adopting the Older Child

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ISBN 10:  0916782093 ISBN 13:  9780916782092
Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 1978
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