older child adoption
Welcoming non-infants home
Older child adoption refers to adopting a child past infancy, typically over age three or five, though definitions vary.
The term distinguishes from infant adoption, acknowledging that older children often come from foster care or institutional settings and may have experienced trauma or multiple placements.
They decided on older child adoption after learning how many kids age out of the system without families.
- fosterEncourage development of
- permanencyState of being lasting
- waitingRemaining in expectation
- placementPutting somewhere specific
- special needsAtypical developmental or learning conditions
attachment · trauma · bonding · siblings · caseworker · home study · court · resilience · belonging · family · aging out · hope · second chance · identity · birthparent · orphanage · transition · healing
older child adoptionfoster care
Supervised substitute parenting
temporary placement · kinship care · residential care · institutional care · guardianship
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