Upcoming Adoption Forum in NYC: The Impact of Chinese and other International Adoption Practices in relation to Birth Families, Abandonment and Searches The Board of Directors of FCC of Greater NY and the Asian/Pacific/ American Institute at New York University are honored to present An Adoption Forum featuring David Smolin, Brian Stuy and Longlan Stuy who will speak about their …
Category: Adoption Parenting
Research Invitation
The below invitation for participation is being posted on behalf of the researcher. If you are interested in participating, be sure to reply directly to Ms. Strassberg via her email address below. PEAR is not sponsoring or otherwise involved in the research project or its funding, we are posting this purely as a public service in support of improving pre-adoption …
Cautionary Statement for Families Considering Special Needs and Older Child Adoption
Cautionary Statement for Families Considering Special Needs and Older Child Adoption As the landscape of international adoption has changed over the past few years, we’ve seen an increasing number of families opening their homes and hearts to older children, sibling groups and children with special needs. We at PEAR are certainly heartened by this admirable trend but would be remiss …
RESOURCE: EMK Press Article Collection
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 …
Crises in Adoptions: Resources
PEAR State Directory and Guide to Health Professional license checks links updated on May 17, 2010Over the past year, PEAR has been researching resources for parents and children in crisis as part of the basic information to be included in our PEAR state directories. Due to the current demand for help, we are sharing this work-in-progress in the hopes that …
Crisis in Adoption
PEAR has been closely following the story of Justin Hansen, also known as Artyom Savelyev, and the reactions of groups both supportive and opposed to international adoption. Our hearts go out to Justin/Artyom and to all traumatized children. And, while PEAR does not condone the choice made by his mother and grandmother, many of us, as parents of traumatized children …