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Parenting Your Adopted Child
A Trauma-Informed Guide to Building Attachment When an Older or Foster-Adopted Child Won't Bond, Making Sense of Trauma Behaviors, and Why It Is Not the Same as Raising a Biological ChildBy Imad Muratspahic
Length3h 20m
About this audiobook
One adoptive parent posted a plea that drew a flood of replies: we adopted our teenage son two months ago, he won't let us in, and we don't know what we're doing wrong. Underneath, adult adoptees answered with a hard truth that stings every new adoptive parent: parenting an adopted child is not the same as raising a biological one, and love alone was never going to be enough. If you are living with a child who flinches at a hug, rages over nothing, hoards food, or tells you that you are not their real parent, you are not failing, and you are not alone. Parenting Your Adopted Child is a trauma-informed, day-to-day field guide for the part no one prepares you for: after the child is home. It is not a book about deciding whether to adopt. It is about attachment that refuses to come on schedule, behavior that makes no sense until you learn what it is really saying, and a bond you cannot force but can patiently build. Written to honor what adult adoptees say and to refuse any promise of a quick fix, this book will not hand you a cured child.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length3 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Parenting Your Adopted Child
2Important Notice
3Two Months In and the Door Is Still Closed
4Chapter 1: Not the Same, and Why That Matters
5Chapter 2: The Survival Brain
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6Chapter 3: The Honeymoon and the Crash
7Chapter 4: Building Felt Safety
8Chapter 5: What the Behavior Is Really Saying
9Chapter 6: Discipline Without Fear
10Chapter 7: Their Story, Their Loss, Their Questions
11Chapter 8: Race, Culture, and the Mirror
12Chapter 9: Birth Family, Visits, and the Loyalty Bind
13Chapter 10: When You Need More Than a Book
14Chapter 11: The Parent You Didn't Expect to Be
15Chapter 12: The Long Game
16The Door, a Little Wider
17Quick Reference: Terms, Decoder, Scripts, and Resources
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