Benjamin Bear Gets A New Family
Deborah Berry Joy, M.A.

Copyright 1988, 1991, 1997, 2001
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88-91999

This book deals, in story-book form, with the feelings many children experience as a result of their birth parents inability to provide care for them, as well as feelings related to their subsequent adoption. These feelings are understandably confusing and difficult for children to handle. The adoptive parents and professionals working with these children can have complex feelings as well. It is my belief that when the adults deal with these feelings directly, the child feels much more understood and accepted by the adoptive parents, which increases his or her ability to trust and attach to the parents.