International Adoption: How to Choose the Best Fit
From International Adoption: How to Choose a Country: 10. Decide which country is the best fit for your family. If you have followed the process laid out in International Adoption: How to Choose a...
View ArticleHanging On
In order to keep current with the happenings of international adoption, I receive Google alerts pertaining to all things internationally adopted. It keeps me updated on legislation, status of country...
View ArticleInternational Adoption: Is it Right for Me?
Are you adventurous? Do you travel abroad? Have you spent time in third world countries? Are you comfortable with different languagues, cultures, and people? Are you open-minded? If you answered “yes”...
View ArticleSomeone Always Has a Horror Story
Have you ever noticed that there are certain events in your life that will elicit comment and advice from anyone? When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, there was no one around my age to offer...
View ArticleAdoption After Breast Cancer
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, I was 32 years old, married, working on a career, and had yet to turn on the biological time clock. However, life changed after that fateful phone...
View ArticleMuffins With Mom
Friday morning was Muffins with Mom Day at my daughter’s school, a special Mother’s Day treat in honor of our day. I sat on the floor of the library with Bunny enjoying a blueberry muffin and watching...
View ArticleChoosing an Adoption Path (Openness, Risk, Age of Child)
When embarking on the adventure of an adoption journey, there are many choices to make along the way. Financial considerations are at the forefront of many hopeful adoptive parents’ minds, but there...
View ArticleAdoption? Yes, But Not What You Think
Adoption is the legal and/or social establishment of a parent-child relationship where that relationship is not the natural result of marital sexual intimacy. Yet it seems that within this rather...
View ArticleOur Adoption Journey Begins
Seven years ago, the first ultrasound of my only pregnancy showed me in no uncertain terms that I was about to become the mother of identical twins. My first reaction was elation, but it was edged with...
View ArticleThe Older Sibling Effect
Getting custody of Alan, the little boy I’m hoping to adopt, became a real option for the first time earlier this year. Alan’s mother was in crisis, and something was going to have to be done to ensure...
View ArticleEncouraging Minorities to Adopt
While all transracially adopted children deserve adoptive parents who are culturally sensitive and willing to expose not only their child, but themselves and their entire family to the child’s ethnic...
View ArticleSilence
I’ve been silent here for many months. This process, trying to adopt my relative’s son because his mother cannot care for him, has been heart-wrenching for everyone involved. The last time you heard...
View ArticleOne Name to Unite Us?
When I got divorced last year, it made sense for me to keep my married name. I got married during graduate school, so my entire post-education career had been conducted under that name. It was my...
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