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Inside Adoption - A parent's story (Paperback)
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Inside Adoption - A parent's story (Paperback)
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Loot Price R473
Discovery Miles 4 730
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Adoption has changed hugely in the past few decades. These days,
most children placed with adoptive families are not babies; by the
time they meet their new parents they may have been exposed to a
range of traumatic experience - in utero, within their birth
families and within the state care system. Exposure to drugs or
alcohol in the womb and abuse in early childhood are increasingly
known to have significant effects on a child's psychological and
relational development. The effects can endure throughout the whole
of their life, regardless of the loving care and stability they
receive in their adoptive home. This poses very real challenges for
people stepping forward into the role of adoptive parent. Unlike
most books on adoption, Inside Adoption is written by someone who
has both worked within the adoption `industry' and is an adoptive
parent himself. Philip Teasdale describes here his own experience,
along with his wife Anne, of adopting Jemma as a baby. This is the
story of the difficult and traumatising years that followed, as
they struggled to provide a loving home around their emotionally
volatile and often violent adoptive daughter. It also describes the
failure of the statutory services to provide support for the family
and psychological help for Jemma to enable her to manage her
personal demons and impulses. Teasdale brings to this first-person
account an insightful analysis and critique of the adoption process
as it has developed over the past two decades, highlighting its
abject failure to acknowledge significant social trends in any
meaningful way. There is, he argues, still too little funding going
into the post-adoption period; adoptive parents are still left to
sink or swim as best they can, while the statutory agencies tick
the box for another child `placed' and wash their hands of further
responsibility.
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