Adoptive Family Identity Formation

Adoptive Family Identity Formation can be defined as the way in which the family system transforms emotionally, spiritually, and physically from its pre-adoptive state to one that embraces and reflects the recently placed child. This transformation has to occur not only the first time a family adopts, but each time a child arrives. After all, each child brings new energy, new challenges, new expectations, new hopes, and new ideas; and, the family has to change as it integrates these into

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