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

So, you’ve decided to adopt an older child? Great! Depending on the age of your child, you may have dodged the sleep and potty training stages (o

Over four decades ago Elsie Ramirez lived in Puerto Rico with her husband, who was stationed at Ramey Air Force Base. When the couple decided to sp

Every day more and more adoptees are using DNA to find birth families. There are three types of testing available that may help. You can do a mitoc

The first word that comes to mind with adoption is ‘roller coaster.’ With every terrifying, scary, pit in your stomach downward spiral ther

Our adoption fees were more than our annual salary. Granted, our annual salary was measly at the time, but even if it weren’t, infant domestic ad

As of January 2017, the Adoptees’ Birthright Act allows adult adoptees born or adopted in New Jersey access to their original birth certificate t

When we share how our family was built by domestic infant adoption, a popular question is always whether we still see their birth moms. The answer:

I was in a Kroger parking lot when my attorney laid the number on me: $15,000. For a private in-family adoption. I remember feeling like someone ra

Steve Belshaw, 54, was placed for adoption via a newspaper ad when he was an infant. He had known he was adopted since he was about eight years old

Should I write a post just about what adoption is? Is that boring because people already know? The answer is no…they do not know. It’s interes