Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide

Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Suzanne Buckingham Slade
Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide

Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Suzanne Buckingham Slade

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Overview

The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teenagers, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem. These feelings may be compounded by the isolation they feel because most friends and family members cannot fully relate to their situation.

Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide enables young adults to explore their feelings as they read about the personal experiences of other adopted teens. Through these stories, adopted teens can learn how others have resolved some of their adoption issues and gain powerful insights from those who have experienced some of the same frustrations, struggles, and concerns.

This book addresses various issues such as:

  • finding out you’ve been adopted
  • fitting in
  • searching for birth parents
  • meeting birth parents
  • international adoption
  • transracial adoption
  • what defines a family

This revised edition also features discussion questions at the end of each chapter that help teens and loved ones acknowledge and verbalize their concerns. With up-to-date statistics, as well as insights from experienced adoption professionals who offer practical advice, this edition of Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide is a valuable resource for adopted teens as well as their families and friends.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810885691
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 01/17/2013
Series: It Happened to Me Series , #34
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 232
File size: 13 MB
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Age Range: 12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Suzanne Buckingham Slade is the author of more than 80 books for children and young adults. She is also an adoptive mother.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Is This for Real?
1 Finding Out You're Adopted
2 Fitting In
3 Learning about Your Adoption
4 Why Did My Birth Parents Chose Adoption?
5 Should I Search?
6 Searching for Birth Parents
7 Meeting the Birth Parents
8 International Adoption
9 Transracial Adoption
10 Adopted at an Older Age
11 A Real Family

What People are Saying About This

Ashley Rhodes-Courter

"As an adopted teen, I had a lot of unanswered questions about my past and biological family. This wonderful resource will help adopted young adults as they explore their own histories."--(Ashley Rhodes-Courter, adopted from foster care at age 12, 2004 NACAC Youth Advocate of the Year, 2007 Golden Brick Award Winner, Author of Three Little Words, Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Rita Soronen

"Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide is a comprehensive look at the issues, challenges and joys that youth experience as they make their journey through adoption. The voices of teens provide insight and wisdom and underscore the notion that although families take many forms, the common thread for us all is a need to belong, to be loved and to understand our history as we work to determine our future."--(Ms. Rita Soronen, Executive Director, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption)

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