Adopting? How to adopt or foster a child, baby or orphan

“The Biggest Little Town of its Size!” Like many towns, Kensington, Kansas has its own unique slogan, which perfectly symbolizes this small far

In 2010, the country singer Jimmy Wayne, known for the song “Stay Gone,” made a 1,700 mile trek from Nashville to Phoenix. He even lost a recor

Having a baby can be such an exciting time, but for a woman who is not prepared it can be very scary. When you find out you are pregnant and you ar

As an adoptive mother, I knew I wanted an open adoption. As we communicated with our son’s birth mother throughout her pregnancy, we talked about

At 6:00 AM on May 9, Josh Clark put a party horn in his mouth, armed himself with some confetti poppers, and opened a bedroom door. “Morning time

I am not good with uncertainty (is anyone good with uncertainty?). When we were in the process of adopting through an agency it felt like every s

There are some adoption topics that everyone has an opinion on, and many of those opinions are vastly different from one another. Naming an adopted

On his ten-year-old birthday, Kalani Watson stood in front of the man who has been a father figure in his life for nearly eight years and asked him

In this day and age, it surprises me that this is still even a debate. But let’s lay it all out anyway. To start, what is a right? That question

I remember the day like it was yesterday. Blue sky. Sunshine. Gentle breeze. Quiet neighborhood–except for a dog’s bark echoing in the dist

Jeff and Wendy Shupe from Virginia, discovered last September that their daughter, Avery, who they’d adopted almost five years ago, had a sister

Do you have to be married to foster? Am I too old to be a foster parent? Are most of the foster children from the juvenile system? Theses are just

Placing a baby for adoption affects more than just the birth mom–it affects all her friends and family too. They grieve both for her and the

After 52 years of wondering what had happened to her oldest daughter, Donna Pavey’s questions were finally put to rest. Paved admitted, “I knew

There are currently 196.5 million Facebook users in the US. Facebook is a wonderful way for people to connect with old friends, family members, and

The road of adoption is not without its up and downs, and actress Sharon Stone has had her own private rollercoaster in adopting her three sons. Bu

When in an open adoption, does that mean that everything is wide open and nothing is off limits? Of course not. Every open adoption still comes wit

Country superstar Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren Akin, were able to bring their daughter, Willa Gray Akin, home from Uganda last Thursday. They

I don’t know about you, but the past few months feel like they were 300 days long. So many things have happened, so many things have gone viral,

As an adoptee, my birth certificate lists my adoptive mom and dad as the parents I was born to. The document does not say anywhere on it that it wa