July 08, 2017

Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week

Hi there!

Happy Saturday!

We hope you had a lovely short week (if it was short for you), and that you were able to enjoy the holiday and some outdoors with your family.

Here are some of our favorite reads for the week. Take a look, and enjoy!

See you Monday :).

Love this list of books geared towards talking about birth mothers with young children. So helpful!

A beautiful story of how four adoptive families united as one.

100 summer boredom-busters to keep your little ones busy this season.

After two teens adopted from state care in Iowa died from abuse this year, the state is preparing new requirements to ensure children are regularly seen by someone who “in a position to identify abuse or neglect.” This is to help protect adopted children whose parents are receiving financial assistance from the state.

What does it take for a traumatized child to thrive? “Not surprisingly, they found that childhood trauma casts a long shadow over a person’s happiness: the higher someone’s ACE score, the greater his or her chances of eventually performing poorly in the workplace, taking antidepressants, and committing suicide. But childhood trauma didn’t just affect mental health. As a person’s ACE score increased, so did his or her chances of eventually being diagnosed with cancer, heart disease, liver disease, and emphysema. Sometimes these physical ailments stemmed from the risky behaviors that people with histories of childhood adversity were prone to: injecting drugs, smoking, having sex with many partners. But even absent those bad habits, patients who had been exposed to stress and trauma at an early age were simply far more vulnerable to disease.”

Deportation is a death sentence to adoptees after living their entire lives in the US.

5 real-life responses to nosy adoption questions.