How To Become An Adoptive Parent
Do you know the truth about the adoption process and being an adoptive parent? If you haven’t yet adopted your child, you probably don’t. Many parents only discover the truth after they bring their adopted child home. So, you’ll have a head start.
What Being an Adoptive Parent is Really Like:
• Adopting a child will be one of the most amazing journeys you will ever take, but it will also be very hard.
• Preconceived notions about adoption are just that. They’re preconceived. Try to keep your mind open about what adoption is going to be like until you bring your adopted child home. It will help you to avoid being surprised and “thrown off” by things that don’t fit in with your pre-adoption expectations.
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always immediately result in the expected feelings of a parent for their children. In some adoptions, these feelings will need to grow over time. Don’t allow a lack of immediate bonding/connection to define your relationship.
• Even after years of waiting and wishing and many, many hours of preparation, bringing an adopted child home can result in mixed feelings.
This is normal.
To keep things completely real, you can’t know what it’s like to be an adoptive parent until you’re there. It’s the same as not knowing what it’s like to be a parent until your child is born. You can plan. You can take classes. You can talk to others who have gone through similar situations. You can prepare. You can be the most well read prospective adoptive parent ever to exist. But you still can’t predict the future.
You simply have to use your preparations to accept the situation as it comes and address new issues as they arise. Attempting to force your adoption story into a cookie cutter mold of what you think it should be is the quickest way to generate unwanted stress for both you and your child. No two adoption stories are the same. Make yours your very own by accepting your adopted child for who they are and allowing their unique personality and experiences to inspire the natural evolution of your family.
If you have questions about the Arizona adoption process or if you need assistance with your own adoption, please get in touch with an experienced adoption lawyer at Arizona Family Law
Attorneys.
What Being an Adoptive Parent is Really Like:
• Adopting a child will be one of the most amazing journeys you will ever take, but it will also be very hard.
• Preconceived notions about adoption are just that. They’re preconceived. Try to keep your mind open about what adoption is going to be like until you bring your adopted child home. It will help you to avoid being surprised and “thrown off” by things that don’t fit in with your pre-adoption expectations.
• The adoption of a child doesn’t …show more content…
always immediately result in the expected feelings of a parent for their children. In some adoptions, these feelings will need to grow over time. Don’t allow a lack of immediate bonding/connection to define your relationship.
• Even after years of waiting and wishing and many, many hours of preparation, bringing an adopted child home can result in mixed feelings.
This is normal.
To keep things completely real, you can’t know what it’s like to be an adoptive parent until you’re there. It’s the same as not knowing what it’s like to be a parent until your child is born. You can plan. You can take classes. You can talk to others who have gone through similar situations. You can prepare. You can be the most well read prospective adoptive parent ever to exist. But you still can’t predict the future.
You simply have to use your preparations to accept the situation as it comes and address new issues as they arise. Attempting to force your adoption story into a cookie cutter mold of what you think it should be is the quickest way to generate unwanted stress for both you and your child. No two adoption stories are the same. Make yours your very own by accepting your adopted child for who they are and allowing their unique personality and experiences to inspire the natural evolution of your family.
If you have questions about the Arizona adoption process or if you need assistance with your own adoption, please get in touch with an experienced adoption lawyer at Arizona Family Law
Attorneys.