relation to the dynamics in adoptive family development, the authors of, Child Welfare and Family Services, define entitlement as, “a process that occurs before and during the time a child enters the family” (Whitlaw, 405). There are two forms of entitlement. In the legal sense, entitlement is achieved once the adoption papers are signed. However, emotional entitlement can be more complicated. In both Ashley’s and the Courter’s case, legal entitlement was gained when Ashley said the three little words…
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