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January 22, 2015
Adopting a Child with a Facial Difference
(My daughter, Hayden, before she was adopted) One of our adopted children has a significant facial difference as a result of a genetic...
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January 14, 2015
Adopting An 11th Child
After a little more staring at the picture and thinking about her and playing the ‘what if’ game, it almost starts to feel normal....
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January 07, 2015
Adoptive Parents Place Child with FASD with Guardian Parents
Lori and Craig Gertz adopted little Ellie, born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Her parents didn’t know what was causing her...
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January 06, 2015
Dear Struggling Mother: Part 1 of 2
Dear Struggling Mother, I know it can be hard when our fantasies about parenting a child clash with reality. There is so much I want to say...
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December 30, 2014
Matthew in the Middle: A Child’s Journey on the Broken Road
To see life-long damage done to a child in just a few minutes by someone who is supposed to love and protect is enough to make any feeling...
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December 24, 2014
The Medical Conditions Check List and What We Know We Can’t Do
On the one hand, no one wants to have a child end up in a family who is not prepared to care for their medical needs. On the other hand,...
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December 19, 2014
Adopting a Drug Addicted Baby – Raising Him to Reach His Potential
Doug and Deanne Walker have 19 children, 10 of whom are adopted. These loving parents have been up and down and all around adoption, and...
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December 15, 2014
Adoptive Mother Relinquishes Child So He Can Be Helped
Since adopted 9-year-old Niko from Serbia five years ago, Nicole Desmarais has been torn between protecting her other children and keeping...
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December 14, 2014
Tears of Realization
At that moment, she stopped and looked at me and my mom. She told me I was a beautiful, successful woman, and told my mom that she had done...
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December 12, 2014
When I Wrote My Life Plan, I Never Imagined This
A new route that we hadn’t really considered lay before us. And it was the right route. We realized that our plan never got off...