Talking to Your Children About Adoption

May 11, 2005/ Julian Davies, MD

The Child Welfare Information Gateway has a very thorough review of "Adoption and the Stages of Development", which is a good place to start.

Adoption.com also has an nice factsheet called "Explaining Adoption to Your Child". Adoption Mosaic has a number of excellent resources: "Talking to Your Kids About Adoption: 11 Tips", and "Pointers for Discussing Tough Adoption Subjects with Kids".

For age-specific guides, courtesy of Adoptive Families Magazine, download ...

Center for Adoption Medicine

Our center has 3 pediatricians that specialize in adoption medicine: Julia Bledsoe, MD, Julian Davies, MD, and Cynthia Kertesz, MD. We have over a decade of experience in international adoption and foster care.

CENTER FOR ADOPTION MEDICINE

Our center has two pediatricians that specialize in adoption medicine: Julia Bledsoe, MD and Julian Davies, MD.

We perform pre-adoption consultations by telephone for families adopting from abroad or domestically. We also provide post-placement evaluations and ongoing pediatric care at our Seattle clinic.