Parenting Your Adopted Child

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 wit...