Adoptive Family: Negotiating “Normal”

Learn about negotiating boundaries, communication, support, and normalcy from a young person formally in foster care and her adoptive parents.

Publication year: 2016

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Capacity Building Center for States

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Shares stories from Caia, a young person who was formerly in foster care, and her foster and adoptive parents, Amanda and Deena, about negotiating boundaries, communication, support, and normalcy as a family.

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Capacity Building Center for States (2016). Adoptive Family: Negotiating “Normal”. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Kinship Family: You Get a Call, Do You Want These Kids?

Bruce and Brenda have been married for 33 years and have four daughters. From 2006 to 2009, they provided a kinship placement for their four grandchildren. In 2010, the couple adopted Bruce (now 18 years old), Tre’Nae (now 15 years old), Mason (now 13 years old), and Kiaunna (now 10 years old).

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