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We Want to Adopt, but My Father-in-Law Has Terminal Cancer - Weekend Wisdom
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Question: My father-in-law was just diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a maximum of 6 months left to live. We learned this right before our home study for older child/foster care adoption was finalized. Do you have any advice for what we should do with our adoption process moving forward? I am worried if we match before my husband is done grieving, we could add additional trauma to the child, but there is no set timeline for grieving. How do we deal with our loss while helping a child get through their loss?
Resources:
- Creating a Family Online Support Group (Facebook)
- Transitioning a Child to Your Home (Resource Page)
- Helping a Child Heal from Trauma (Resource Page)
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
775 episodes
We Want to Adopt, but My Father-in-Law Has Terminal Cancer - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
Manage episode 464348286 series 8738
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.
Question: My father-in-law was just diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a maximum of 6 months left to live. We learned this right before our home study for older child/foster care adoption was finalized. Do you have any advice for what we should do with our adoption process moving forward? I am worried if we match before my husband is done grieving, we could add additional trauma to the child, but there is no set timeline for grieving. How do we deal with our loss while helping a child get through their loss?
Resources:
- Creating a Family Online Support Group (Facebook)
- Transitioning a Child to Your Home (Resource Page)
- Helping a Child Heal from Trauma (Resource Page)
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
775 episodes
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