Adoption Group: Parents of Young Children

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Parents of Young Children

For parents of children—ages 4 to 7 years old.

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Help My Adoption Research!

Hello friends of adoption! My name is Kristen Haberkorn and I am a graduate student and adoptee from the Communication Department at the Wake Forest University. I am writing to…
- Posted by kristenhaberkorn to Parents of Young Children on Mar 04, 2019 at 3:24pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Help reduce adoption disruption and/or dissolution!

Hello, My name is Anne-Marie Fleckenstein, MA, LPC and I am a doctoral candidate at Fielding Graduate University. I am conducting a dissertation study investigating what…
- Posted by Anne-Marie to Parents of Young Children on Feb 17, 2019 at 5:01pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Help improve adoptive parent support services!

Posting with permission… Hello, My name is Anne-Marie Fleckenstein, MA, LPC and I am a doctoral candidate at Fielding Graduate University. I am conducting a dissertation…
- Posted by Anne-Marie to Parents of Young Children on Feb 04, 2019 at 4:58am | 1 Comment | Post a reply
Dissertation Survey

With permission I am posting the following: Hello, My name is Anne-Marie Fleckenstein, MA, LPC and I am a doctoral candidate at Fielding Graduate University. I…
- Posted by Anne-Marie to Parents of Young Children on Jan 17, 2019 at 2:46am | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Adopting out of birth order

I’m curious about people’s experiences adopting out of birth order. We have one beautiful little girl, almost 3.5, whom joined our family at 14.5 months. We had had planned on…
- Posted by thegoldings to Parents of Young Children on Aug 23, 2017 at 3:56am | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Open adoption

We have an open adoption wherein we see BM once a year ...we recently told our 4 y.o. that she is adopted and next week is our annual meeting with…
- Posted by Rachael245 to Parents of Young Children on Aug 04, 2017 at 7:53pm | 5 Comments | Post a reply
Masters Research Study

Thank you to everyone who has responded to my request for participants to take part in my dissertation research. Although all adoptive parents are welcome to participate I particularly need…
- Posted by JoanneGuthrie to Parents of Young Children on Jun 07, 2017 at 6:05pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Extreme Religion and problems with prior fostering

Hello, We are in the transition process with a 6 year old girl coming from a foster family. We’re very happy that she’s smart and already reading an doing math…
- Posted by J45 to Parents of Young Children on Jun 19, 2016 at 1:54pm | 10 Comments | Post a reply