Find opportunities to forge strong bonds with your adoptive child from the first day you bring him or her home.
Among other things, it's my job to be on hand at the airport when adoptive children arrive from other countries.
And, yes, adoptive children may anguish over the facts of their birth as they grow older.
In order to protect the adoptive children, restrictions on age are reinforced.
Treat your adoptive children as one of the family.
Shields said that while never formally proposing, he would speak about the two marrying and raising adoptive children together.
The group has worked with the schools, which have tried to make the classroom environment more supportive for adoptive children and their families.
Will adoptive children suffer when they get older and realize they have been kept from biological parents?
Last year more than 40 families attended, many of them American with adoptive children born in Vietnam.
Public resources are well used to stabilize emotionally wounded adoptive children.