Tying in to a nationwide joint campaign by the Evangelical Alliance and Care for the Family, Krish Kandiah wants us all to take seriously Jesus's call to 'suffer the little children' by engaging ...

This factsheet summarizes how foster/adoptive parents can help their child make the emotional adjustment to being an adopted child. Children and youth may not clearly comprehend the difference ...

  Kids are active. They like to play. They like to experiment. They like to create. Family Activities do the kinds of things kids already like to do, but with purpose. Each ...

In this radio broadcast from Focus on the Family, Debi Grebenik offers encouragement and guidance on how adoptive parents can better empathize with the unique difficulties their children are ...

It is important for parents to understand healthy touch and to communicate respect for personal boundaries as they help their child learn to seek and give affection in healthy and appropriate ways. ...

Through a journey of joys, tears, struggle and hopelessness, Debra Delulio Jones found herself shaking her fist in the air and screaming, "God, are You nice or mean?" ​ Her adopted son didn't know ...

Giving ‘children from hard places’ the gift of voice allows them to replace fear with trust. Giving them voice enables them to learn how to ask for their needs appropriately. Giving them voice helps ...

All of us want to raise good kids. And we want to be good parents. But what exactly do we mean by “good?” And is “being good” really the point?   Mother-daughter team Elyse Fitzpatrick ...

Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a ...

Parents who are struggling to connect with their children often find it difficult to find any real measure of hope. In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance for parents to ...

I remember one of the first prayers I prayed when we decided to adopt was about family unity. I felt a strong desire that we be one family, not split by the biological children and the ...

Family Life has a number of great radio broadcasts about adoption and orphan care.  They cover everything from the theology of adoption to global orphan care movements to sharing the stories on ...

This factsheet for families summarizes what foster parents should consider while deciding whether to adopt their foster child or youth. While this factsheet does not address the specifics of how to ...

Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance of parents exploring their expectations and motivations, as well as the impact that their own history can have when parenting children from hard places. ...

In this video (another great resource found at www.empoweredtoconnect.org) Dr. Karyn Purvis discusses the very common issue many parents face at dinner ...

These handouts from Empowered to Connect's April, 2011 conference provide much-needed insight from adoption expert Dr. Karyn Purvis: ●  Handout for The Attachment Dance ●  Handout ...