In response to the Hansen case, EMK Press and other adoption professionals put together an article collection called Realistic Expectations: The First Year Home that can be freely downloaded at the following link:
http://www.emkpress.com/realisticexpectations.html
PEAR recommends that prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents help prepare themselves for parenting challenges by reading the 21 articles in the collection that span topics such as attachment, sleep, finding therapists, sensory integration, unexpected special needs, when adoptions fail and more.
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