Trauma specialist Bruce Perry explains adoptive parents' powerful role in healing their children
Why sleep matters and some strategies to help
Some children want to know more - some don't - and some take the matter into their own hands
Meeting your adopted child for the first time

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Timing can throw up all kinds of difficulties for prospective adopters trying to plan a holiday. What if their long-awaited match appears when they are away? Will it come before they go, and mean they have to cancel? And how soon after placement can you take a child away? Read this week's special feature now.