One of the key things a social worker considers when assessing an adoptive parent’s application to adopt an older child is the parents’ ability to give and receive love. Several behavioral and personality traits of the potential adoptive parents offer a social worker clues about their ability to give and receive love. Relationships with our siblings, parents and spouses as well as our support system of friends usually offer a good picture of adoptive parents’ ability to give and receive love. Assessing a parent’s ability to claim a child is more difficult. Adopting and older child and having a relationship … Continue reading →