Child Welfare Archive

Dr. Nancy Snyderman With Daughter Kate and Kate’s Birth Mother As we in the adoption community know all to well, the process of adoption has evolved dramatically over the years. Up until the 60’s or 70’s it was much like …

“This book should be a wakeup call to all adoptive parents and professionals about the urgent issues adoptees and their parents face.” Nancy Newton Verrier, attachment therapist and author The Primal Wound and Coming Home to Self A Marin County, …

I look at the mess and think, A pile of slop.  But he’s eating it.  He actually seems to like it. I became a father at the age of 40.  My son, Nolan, is approaching his second birthday.  Despite my …

Emerging Leader Maurice came into office hours last week wearing his red power tie. Our initial plan was to unpack his “hustle” from the Work On Purpose workshop we did in our last Emerging Leaders meeting, but he announced that he wanted …

In an article titled “Attachment and Culture (citation below),” Heidi Keller exposes attachment theory’s Western, middle-class assumptions. She argues: … the definition of attachment in mainstream attachment research are in line with the conception of psychological autonomy, adaptive for Western …

______________________ When Dr. Ramona Bishop walked into her office on April Fool’s Day in 2011, the Vallejo schools had hit rock-bottom: The system had been in receivership since 2004. Its 14,000 students were racking up nearly 80,000 referrals, suspensions, and …

This post is in response to comments made about a prior post where it was suggested that a child adopted at birth is not at risk  for attachment disorder. Some respondees agreed, others didn’t. The purpose of this post is …