Adoption of Children With Special Needs аnd Challenges in Post-Adoption Period
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adoption, children with special needs, pоst-adoption periodAbstract
When we talk about children with special needs, it is understood that the child has a visible physical or mental handicap. In this sense, our family law contains specific provisions to regulate the adoption of a handicapped child, or children with physical, emotional or mental disabilities. The question is whether there are children with no apparent disability who are still children with special needs, because they require special knowledge, greater involvement of medical care and adoptive parents. In the post-adoption period, the child can express greater problems in adjusting to these children in adoptive families, and the work will be exhibited, and some theories about possible causes of difficult adaptation and the ways in which they can be easily overcome.
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