How to Talk to Foster Adopted Children About Their Birth Parents
Children who’ve been adopted through the foster system usually come from troubled situations. Talking about their birth parents may be difficult and sensitive, but it’s still important to find ways to approach the topic. Adopted children have reported being concerned that it would hurt their parents’ feelings if they asked questions about their birth parents. Because of that, adoptive parents should initiate the conversation. Here are some ideas on how to talk about it. Talk About the Difficult Topics Foster children often enter the system as the result of abuse, [...]
