Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through The Teen Years

Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years

A guide for adoptive parents from preparations for a child's arrival through the teen years.About the AuthorPatty Cogen has a doctorate in education and a master's degree in clinical psychology and has taught in both universities and elementary schools. She leads First Year Home groups for adoptive families, and advises parents all over the United States about their internationally adopted children and lectures to organizations across the nation on adoption and child development. She lives with her husband and two children, one of whom was adopted from China.