http://empoweredtoconnect.org/children-from-hard-places/ Just another WordPress site Fri, 04 May 2012 19:20:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://empoweredtoconnect.org/children-from-hard-places/#comment-781 Reach out - Ryan A. Weaver Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:17:26 +0000 http://empoweredtoconnect.org/?p=619#comment-781 [...] No, adoptive families are not frequently beaten up or robbed, but the work of parenting a child who has experienced trauma can be extremely taxing – often leaving families feeling more than a little beat up and, at the very least, alone in the struggle.  Too often, we as the larger Christian community have responded to adoptive families with an unwillingness to really understand the intricacies and differences when parenting a child with a trauma history (for more information on what constitutes trauma and the effect on a child, visit http://empoweredtoconnect.org/children-from-hard-places/). [...] [...] No, adoptive families are not frequently beaten up or robbed, but the work of parenting a child who has experienced trauma can be extremely taxing – often leaving families feeling more than a little beat up and, at the very least, alone in the struggle.  Too often, we as the larger Christian community have responded to adoptive families with an unwillingness to really understand the intricacies and differences when parenting a child with a trauma history (for more information on what constitutes trauma and the effect on a child, visit http://empoweredtoconnect.org/children-from-hard-places/). [...]

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