What is the benefit of an adoptive family support group?
The Report on Intercountry Adoption of 2004 has an excellent answer for this question: “Even though adoption is a very normal, acceptable way to build a family, it still is unusual. Therefore, while family and friends can offer a great deal of support, they may not fully understand the questions and concerns of adoptive parents. Adoptive parent groups provide a network of people who share similar experiences. They too, have struggled with the decision to adopt, worked with strangers to find a child, readjusted their lives after placement, and dealt with the curiosity of strangers. Even though they may have traveled different paths to the point of adoption, and even though they may have adopted very different types of children, members of adoptive parent groups have one very important bond: they love and care for children who live with the painful fact that their birth parents could not or would not keep them. Helping children deal with this loss at different stages of life adds a uniqu
