Social Issues Affecting Children and Their Families

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• Overview of Social Issues Affecting Children
  • Talking With Children About Difficult Topics

• Bullying
  • Forms of bullying
  • Children who are bullied
  • Bullies
  • More Information

• Illness and Death in Infants
  • Illness in Infants
  • Infant Loss (Death of an Infant)
  • More Information

• Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
  • Effects of chronic illness on children
  • Effects of chronic illness in children on parents and other family members
  • Medical care team

• Children and Death and Dying
  • Death of a Child
  • Helping Children Deal with Death and Dying
    • Visiting sick children or adults
    • Death of a family member or loved one
    • Attending a funeral
  • More Information

• Divorce and Children
  • Stages of adjustment
  • Effects on children
  • Helping children cope with divorce
  • Effects of a parent having a new relationship

• Child Care
  • Benefits of care outside the home

• Foster Care
  • Foster parents
  • Foster children
  • More Information

• Adoption
  • Adoption from foster care
  • Independent adoption or private adoption
  • International adoption
  • After adoption
  • Contact with birth parents
  • More Information