Adopted Teens Only: A Survival Guide to Adolescence
 | Adopted Teens Only: A Survival Guide to Adolescence author: Danea Gorbett rating:  asin: 1583484817 binding: Paperback list price: $9.95 USD amazon price: $9.95 USD |
Adopted Teens Only: A Survival Guide to Adolescence was written by Danea Gorbett and published by iUniverse. Written specifically for preteen or teenage adopted children it could also be relevant for foster children. If you have a child who is asking tough questions about birth family, you need to buy this book. It can honestly help your child find answers and make sense out of them. The book empowers adoptees by giving them the tools they need to find answers and people.
The book’s format gets teens thinking about the positive and negative adoption and birth family issues and encourages them to create a plan. Challenge questions follow each emotion packed section. However, she doesn’t leave the teens hanging she offers potential solutions. She encourages the teens to choose a plan of action and create deadlines to accomplish each task. Deadlines prevent procrastinating and encourage action.
Danae goes out of her way to make adopted teenagers feel normal. She gives so many scenarios of thoughts and actions that every teen should identify with at least one. Do you ever remember feeling guilty as a child? Did you ever think that you were the only person in the world who had done, said, or thought that? Wouldn’t it have been great to find out that you were normal?
Don’t worry, the book is not anti-adoption or anti-birthparent. Danae gives the positives and negatives of meeting with birth family or closed adoption. She offers potential outcomes for contacting birth family and discussing issues with adoptive parents. These help your teenager prepare for contact, discussion, and potential negative outcomes. It encourages mature conduct from adopted teenagers.
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Guide for which kids
Does the book primarily cover infant or toddler adoptions? How well does it cover older child adoptions from foster care where abuse or neglect was involved. Issues, and particularly anything about the birth family will be very different for kids who have lived through abuse. Not anti-birthparent is wonderful if it doesn't do the standard 'They may have made some mistakes, but they are your birthparents, so we need to accept and move on'. Sounds good and doesn't work. There is a lot of anger that needs to come out and bad feelings directed at bad people that must validated and not be belittled or minimized. John