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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

-William James (1842-1910)

Adoptive Parents

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  • Adoptive parents are faced with:

Students from Churchill School in NYC
Students from Churchill School in NYC
  • Explaining adoption to their children
  • Dealing with schools and other professionals on the subject of adoption
  • Grieving their own losses and helping their children grieve theirs
  • Managing difference within the family, especially in transracial and transnational adoptions
  • Finding services for their children when they need them
  • Finding adequate support and understanding for what it really means 
    to adopt and to raise adopted children

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Adoptive Parent Support

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Video by Emily Branham
Adoptive parents often hear the refrain that they are a family just like any other. However, adoptive families are formed for different reasons and by different means from biological families. This presents adoptive parents with their own set of parenting challenges such as the ones listed above.

As an adoptive parent of two children, Barbara has had first-hand experience of the needs adoptive families have. She has developed support groups for adoptive parents to meet these needs. Parents are grouped according to the age of their children so that they share common issues according to the developmental stage of their child.
  

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"Barbara provides compelling insights into the dynamics in adoptive families. She is uniquely attuned to the adoptive parent's experience and supports a full voicing of all views on that experience, in the philosophy that a healthy parent is a strong parent."— Karen

"Can't thank you enough for being so caring and supportive. Your guidance has been priceless. " -Adrienne
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​Phone: 212-645-7047
Email: Barbara@BarbaraFreedgood.com

​928 Broadway, Suite 1100
New York, NY 10010

15 Pine Grove St.
​Woodstock, NY 12498


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