The Adopting and Fostering Home

Grief and Loss in Adoption

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While adoption is celebrated as a joyous moment for families, it is also a response to a tragedy or breakdown in a family’s life and/or community. Co-hosts Lynette Ezell and Tera Melber speak with Kimber Graves, who works for Orphan Care Alliance in Louisville, Kentucky, on grief and loss in adoption. Apply Kimber’s practical and sage advice to your life as you discover how Kimber watched and experienced grief with her two daughters when they were adopted from China.

To read more about grief and loss in adoption, check out the following resources below:

  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
  • Questions Adoptees Are Asking

    • By Sherrie Eldridge

    • Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections

      • Edited by Jean MacLeod and Sheena Macrae

      • Wounded Children, Healing Homes

        • By Jayne Schooler

        • Parenting the Hurt Child
        • Parenting Adopted Adolescents

          • By Gregory Keck

          To watch more about grief and loss in adoption, check out the following resources below:

          • Adopted (com)
          • Somewhere Between (com)

            • To learn online about grief and loss in adoption, visit the following sites:

            • sherrieeldridge.com
            • empoweredtoconnect.org
            • adoptionlearningpartners.org
            • creatingafamily.org
            • bethany.org/adoption/post-adoption-support/post-adoption-contact-center
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