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Everybody has some grandiose idea about the realities and what it would be like to foster children or adopt a child from foster care. Some people i

Trudy and Lyle LaBonte spend a lot of time with their adopted children’s birth parents. It’s part of open adoption. “My son’s birth

Oh, yes. Yes, they will.  Sometimes, adoptive families avoid talking about adoption. In history, adoption was seen as a shameful thing or somethin

6 Ways to Support a Birth Mother 1. Accept the Loss as a Loss There is this passage in The Girls Who Went Away, by Ann Fessler, where the mother de

TW: Suicide In 2014, a Portland-area psychologist was suspended after one of her young clients attempted suicide. The psychologist misdiagnosed the

Heartbreak and Healing in the Adoption Journey As I walked into the metropolitan hospital that had been my home away from home for years, I often f

I once had a deaf professor tell me that, as a deaf child, she had never seen or met a deaf adult. This meant that, in her childhood reality, deaf

The Tokyo Olympics are underway, and this year it is different in our home with our son. Not only are we very aware of our own country in the games

My daughter and I were recently snuggled up in my bed watching gymnastics on my little phone screen. Although it was streaming from a tiny screen,

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