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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