Birth Mother Matters in Adoption Season 2, 130: Being the Bearer of Bad Tidings

Birth Mother Matters in Adoption Season 2, 130: Being the Bearer of Bad Tidings

Sometimes in the adoption world, we have to deliver bad news.  

No one likes to be the bearer of bad news.  One of the reason is they are the ones to catch the brunt of the bad news, regardless of whether it is within their control or not.

 The concerns of the deliverer of bad news really focus on:

1. How to manage their own anxiety
2. How deliver the news without altering or impairing the news, while making sure they do the best they can and harm the recipient the least:
   1. Timing
   2. Method
   3. Support
   4. Location
   5. Word precision
   6. Follow-up

Listen to one of our own at Building Arizona Families, Adoptive Parent Case Manager, Sarah discuss how she assists families when she has to deliver bas news and how she processes and prepares for it herself. 

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.--Sophocles