A Parent's Guide to the Decisions and Emotions in Adoption
by
Kathleen Whitten Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Adoptive parents often experience the double trial of emotional responses to infertility and to the process of adoption itself, called "excruciating labor with no end in sight," by one adoptive mother. Would-be adoptive parents cycle through grief, anger, fear, anxiety, frustration, and guilt-and...