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Congratulations on your match! How exciting! It sounds like you're going into this perfectly--with love and hope, and also with some research done and an interest in doing more research.
I am a research hound and I've been doing a LOT of reading while we await the placement of our 3 kids (hopefully within a month!), and I've found there are a number of helpful resources out there. I really like the book Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child by Trish Maskew. What's nice about that book is it is all advice compiled from parents who've been there. I also like Parenting the Hurt Child--I forget the author's name off hand. I am also very excited about the North American Council on Adoptable Children's conference that is going on the last weekend in July in Minneapolis. The main focus is on the adoption of children from foster care, and some of the workshops specifically address parenting teens.
I think it's a great sign that this young man is interested in being adopted, that he wants to have a relationship. You sound like a parent who is prepared to commit yourself and do the work to build a family with your son. Best of luck. Let us know how it goes!
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