How are children and family affected by adoption?

      This article helps to provide the base idea of why we should target these ideas of family bond importance. A wonderful part of the introduction in this article states, "... the process by which the caregivers of adoptees become parents to their children is not presented in the social work literature... Consequently, these families must contend with unique but unidentified transitional tasks." (Elbow) Our society does not understand the importance of adoption to family dynamics and how much parents as well as children struggle to make these bonds but have no idea how to reach their goals.





Citation:
Elbow M. From Caregiving to Parenting: Family Formation with Adopted Older Children. Social Work [serial online]. September 1986;31(5):366-370. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 18, 2013.