PRE-ADOPTION COUNSELLING
The conversation that works better before the adoption than after.
If you have not decided yet, this is the list to settle before anyone says yes — who feeds, who walks, where he sleeps, and what the least-ready person needs.
By the time a family is filling in a form they have usually decided. What they haven't done is work out who in the house is actually going to do this — which is the thing that determines whether the placement holds.
This is that conversation on paper. Four minutes at a counter, or sent ahead of a home visit.
Inside
- the real cost of week one
- who owns which job, with names
- the house before he arrives
- the first forty-eight hours
- the day you have nothing left
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