Adoption, Foster Care, and Attachment Parenting
API's Eight Principles of Parenting The Adopted Infant & Young Child are recommended companion readings as the foundation and context for all of our research-based resources.
Free Resources from the API Library, Blog and Publications
- Read API's Eight Principles of Parenting
- Read Expanding Our Attachment on APtly Said (blog)
- Read Developing Emotional Attachments in Adopted Children by Lysa Parker
- Issues Facing Adoptive Parents of Children with Special Needs
- Rosie’s Adoptive Birth Story
- Two Years and Five Months: An Adoption Story
- Michigan Foster Family Embraces AP
- Download Eight Principles of Parenting The Adopted Infant & Young Child