Birth Order: What Difference Does it Make?

Birth Order:

What Difference Does it Make?

Date: March 20, 2013

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Location: Montgomery County Children and Youth Service Building; 1430 DeKalb

Street, Norristown, PA; Community Room

Description: Can birth order really make an impact on a person's personality or how he

or she views life? Can it impact our parenting and how we parent our children? Can

simply being born first, second, or third be a predictor for future success? Come to this

training to explore the basic premises of Alfred Adler's theory of personality development

and the possible impact of birth order. Adoption professionals often suggest families not

disrupt the birth order of their family and this training will take a basic look at why this

is important and if a family chooses to adopt outside of their family's traditional birth

order, strategies on making the adoption and adjustment successful.

Presenters:

Karen Mummau, MSW, LSW is currently an adoption and permanency worker at

Bethanna in Lancaster. Mrs. Mummau has worked in various child welfare venues to include group

homes, the Virginia public schools, with pregnant teens, as well as with International and Domestic infant

adoptions. She obtained her Bachelor of Social Worker degree at Ferrum College in Virginia and

her Masters of Social Worker Degree from Virginia

Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.

Kelly Myers, MSW, LSW is an adoption supervisor at

Bethanna in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Myers has

worked in the child welfare field for twenty years and has

experience in child abuse investigation, foster care and

adoption from both private and public agencies. She earned

her Bachelors Degree from the Pennsylvania State University

in 1992 and went on to earn her Masters in Social Work

from West Chester University in 2004 and obtain her

professional license in social work.