Lesson 4 Pretest–Test Your “AQ”

1. Adoptive parents should engage their children in appropriate language while allowing them to express themselves openly.

2. Adoption myths can cause harm by minimizing the emotional pain adoptees feel because of being relinquished by their birth families.

3. Adoption is always a benign and painless experience for all involved.

4. Adoptive families face unique challenges and distinctions that biological families do not.

5. Our culture or society glosses over adoption loss and views it as a small cost for the benefits received.

6. Adult adoptees say they feel offended by people telling them what they should do, think, and feel.

7. In an ideal world, adoptees would have remained with their birth families unscathed by the trauma of separation and relinquishment.

8. Adopted children do not require additional support or guidance compared to biological children.

9. Adoptive parents become the child’s “real parent,” as the bond is built on love and care, not just biology.

10. While some adoptees may face identity challenges, many are happy and well-adjusted.

11. Adoption is only available to traditional families.

12. Adopted children should always be grateful to their adoptive parents.

13. Adopted children are more likely to have behavioral problems.

14. A child does not need to know that they are adopted.

15. Newborn babies that are adopted do not experience grief.