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How Do Adoptees Feel about Adopting?
Why I Felt Guilty When I Chose to Look for Biological Family
What I Wish Adoptive Parents Knew
The Danger of Empty Promises
Molly's Mission
A Conversation with Faith
Reunited Through Facebook
Adopting Someone Over the Age of 18: Everyone Needs a Family
What Are the Benefits of In-Home Therapy?
How Do I Interact With My Foster Child's Birth Family?
What Is Adoption from Haiti Like?
When Your Birth Story Doesn’t Sound Like Everyone Else’s
Birth Parents Joined in Marriage by Birth Son
Indian Child Welfare Act Declared Unconstitutional
The Harm Caused by NOT Talking to Your Child about Adoption
3 Reasons Why Siblings Need Each Other
Meet Miah
3 Things to Know about Adopting a Child with Down Syndrome
The Family I Never Knew Existed
Adoptive Parents Don't "Save Kids"
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Hague Convention
Why Siblings Need to Be Kept Together in Foster Care
Red Flags in an International Adoption Agency
But What About Your Biological Children?
Adoption and Loss
Experiencing Post-Adoption Depression in a Second Adoption
My Grief and Feelings of Abandonment As an Adoptee
Finding Adoption-Friendly Childcare
Kathy’s DNA Story: Meeting Her Birth Family
Dealing with Invasive Questions about Your Family
Adoption Fees in Family/Kinship/Grandchild Adoptions
Can I Handle the Grief When Foster Kids Leave? Can My Kids?
Superman Was Adopted
Why Grandparents Are Important in Adoption
How Can I Help My Friend Understand Child Trauma?
Why Don’t You Understand?
How to Prepare for the Home Study
How to Cope when Adoptive Children Search for Birth Parents
Help Me Help You
Why It Is So Important to Let Go of the Past
The Pros and Cons of Technology During the Adoption Process
Where to Live As a Transracial Family
How I’ve Found Healing in My Open Adoption
How Do I Claim the Adoption Tax Credit?
You Have to Know This When First Thinking about Adoption
Is Regular Adoption More Difficult Than Foster Adoption?
What Birth Parents Really Want in Updates
6 Things You Probably Shouldn’t Say to an Adoptee
Top 5 Ways to Teach Family Members About Your Child’s Trauma
What If Your Biological Parent Has Passed Before a Reunion?
Gift Ideas for New Adoptive Parents
Dealing with Unsupportive/Uninformed Relatives in Adoption
Ashley and Alo Adopted 6 Siblings from Foster Care
Putting in Your Yes After a No
Our Journey to China
My Children Are Siblings
5 Things to Say to Kids When Facing Racism
The Church and Foster Care
When You're Surviving, You Can't Dream
They'd Been Searching for Me, Too
Bridging the Gap: RAD and Equine Therapy
How to Budget for an Adoption
Salon Mommy: Learning Culturally Appropriate Hairstyles
Beware of Scammers
An Interview with Jared: An Adoptee, Singer, and Advocate
Graduation: “A Roller Coaster of Emotions for an Adoptee”
Returning to Independence
What Does a Wendy’s Hamburger Have to Do with Adoption?
5 Most Popular International Adoption Agencies
Is the Child I'm Adopting Really an Orphan?
This Is Why Stepparent Adoption Rocks!
4 Tips to Overcoming Issues as an Older Adoptee
Finding Toys That Represent Your Adopted Child
What Was the Process Like to Become a Foster Parent?
What If I Can’t Find My Birth Parents?
'Relative Race' Changed My Life
4 Losses Your Child Experiences after Adoption
How Does Adoption in India Work?
8 (Potential) Bottlenecks in the Adoption Process
5 Things to Know about Transracial Adoption
5 Ways to Advocate for Adoptions in Your State
The Ugly Parts of Adoption You Should Understand
My Son Is Her Son Too
Will I Be Able to Financially Afford Being a Foster Parent?
Awkward “Parking Lot” Conversations And How to Handle Them
A Tearjerking Reunion of Mother and Daughter
Why Is Foster Adoption Typically Cheaper?
4 Adoption Myths That Unfortunately Still Exist
Why Adoption Is Not about Finding Children for Families
How Can eHarmony Help with Waiting Children?
Adoption Isn’t Saving Children. Here’s why.
How God Is Like a Birth Father
Why You Should Chill About the Home Study Process: Our Story
I Stand Amazed at Adoption
What If I Can Never Be Reunited with My Birth Child?
Sweet Photo Shows the Joy of A 4-Year-Old's Adoption
I’m Adopting, Not Buying a Child
Preserving Cultural Links for Children in Foster Care
Understanding My Identity As an International Adoptee
Top 7 Tips for Parenting A Child with Special Needs
Why a False Adoption Quotation Made Me Write This Article
Mother Sells Daughter at Bar 51 Years Ago
5 Reasons Why You Should Advocate for Adoption
This Is Us Gets the Complexities of Transracial Adoption
Why I Broke My Own Heart When I Placed My Baby for Adoption
The Opioid Crisis and the Foster Care System
10 Tips for Being a Single Parent
How Can I Help My Child Who Has Dealt with Physical Abuse?
Country Singer Finds Perspective through His Adoption
DNA and Adoption
4 Awesome Family Hangout Ideas
Adoptive Parents You Are Not Alone. Here's Why.
Australia Recommences Adoptions with India
Why Do We Not Hear from Birth Fathers Very Much?
My Best Day Ever? Meeting My Birth Mother
Books, Foster Care, Adoption, and the Dungys
Why I Chose Adoption for My Child
A Foster Adoption Story: Twins Times Two
Woman Remembered for Fostering over 150 Children
Building Community after Adoption
We Told Our Children They Were Adopted from the Start
One Man Reunites with Long Lost Family after 67 Years
Let's Be Real about Adoption. 5 Things You Should Know
Is Adopting from Africa Right for YOU?
Maine Creates New Law To Keep Siblings Together
How Do I Deal with the Pain of a Failed Match?
Bipartisan Bill Considered To Protect Religious Foster Care
Post-Adoption Depression
Friendship. Not Fights
4 Controversial Topics Surrounding Adoption
Star Maci Bookout Announces Exciting Adoption Plans
Oil Is Booming in Texas, And So Is The Foster Care System
15 Totally True Celebrity Quotes about Adoption
When Adoptees Meet Biological Parents
"At Least You Were Chosen"
How Do Birth Fathers Cope with Placing a Child for Adoption?
We Found Our Son in Nigeria
Why My Birthday Is Hard as an Adoptee
Adoptee and Birth Mother Co-Author New Children's Book
Colts Gift Backpacks To Kids in Foster Care
How God Helped Me To Place My Baby
10 Tips That Will Make You Better at Child Communication
Why Do Some Countries Not Allow International Adoption?
Two Sisters Reunite After 30 Years Apart
A Birth Father's Story of Placement
Choosing a School as a Transracial Adoptive Parent
Isaiah Is Looking for His Forever Family
Adoption in Ukraine: How It Works
Randall Pearson from ‘This Is Us’ Was Adopted
Is Closed Adoption Ethical?
Nonprofit Gives Kids "Reel" Hope
"Where There Is Adoption, There Is Hope"
44 Women Raise Money for Foster Kids Going to College
12 Fun Summer Activities for Adoptive Families
A DNA Test Reunites Unknown Relatives
7 Vacation Tips for Adoptive Families
After Three Decades…I Found My Birth Parents
The Ethics of Mosaic Embryos
Meant to Be: Our Foster to Adoption Story
4 Pieces of Helpful Advice to Hopeful Adoptive Parents
Meeting My Child for the First Time
Adopting a Child with Down Syndrome: Things to Consider
Arkansans Can Request Adoption Records in August
New Law Might Impact Florida Foster System
Things I Wish Birth Mothers Knew
Being an Invisible Minority
My Family Doubled Overnight
CASA Volunteers Needed for Foster Children in Montana
Parents Need to Understand Adopted Child Syndrome
You Don’t Have to Be a Millionaire to Adopt
How Will Fostering Impact My Other Children?
Finding Your “Village”
When Birth Parents Go Silent
Tashima Dukes: An Advocate for Foster Youth
Foster Care and Adoption Changed My Life
British Family Adopted 9 Children with Down Syndrome
How Can I Help My Children Reach Their Potential?
4 Reasons You Shouldn’t Focus on Your Child’s Past/Present
Chile's Stolen Children Now Come Forth
Chile's Stolen Children Now Come Forth
5 Big Mistakes People Make When Adopting from Foster Care
Experiencing a Home Study: My Story
Adoptees Be Aware: Indiana Changes Adoption Laws
Birth Moms Want Adoptive Parents to Know This Post-Placement
What Age Should the Child Be That I Foster?
5 Questions You’ll Most Likely Have to Answer After Adopting
Reflections on the Southwest Airlines Incident
5 Things Will Happen as International Adoption Decreases
Adopting Older Children: Does My Child Need My Last Name?
6 Pieces of Advice to Young Adults Who Want to Adopt
Avoiding the Savior Complex in Adoption
She’s Sweet And Smart: Meet Zaaria
5 Ways I Felt the Moment We Were Matched
My Role as an Adoptive Mom in a Transracial Adoption
Book Review: 'Chosen for Greatness'
The Twig Is Giving Away Free Clothes to Foster Kids
Does My Adopted Child Need to Live My Religion?
Nothing Bundt Love
Meet Jeremiah
The Challenges of Explaining Open Adoption to Your Children
More Single Women in India Are Adopting
The Reality of Relationships If You Choose to Foster/Adopt
You Are Wanted
Adopted Twice, Woman Creates Support Group
My Greatest Fear of Adoption
How Do You Call Your Birth Parent for the First Time?
Our Experience of Working with an Adoption Agency
Coast to Coast Toy Run For Foster Care
What Are the Most Common Behavior Issues in Foster Children?
15 Reasons Why You Should Consider Becoming a Parent
Rare Photo of Madonna With All Her Kids
I Don't Support My Friend's Search for Biological Family
Child Trafficking and Adoption
If America Is Pro-Adoption, Why Isn't the State Department
Having a Relationship with my Child's Biological Siblings
Kalaysha Awaits a Forever Family To Call Her Own
How My Grief over Infertility Turned into My Greatest Joy
Lindsay Lohan Inspired To Adopt After Visiting Refugees
Orphans in the World: 7 Shocking Statistics
Yemenite Adoption Files Opened
The Realities of Racism and How to Help Your Child
How Does International Adoption Work?
How Long Will It Take for My Adopted Child to Bond to Me?
4-Year-Old Lost in Penn Station Found 41 Years Later
How to Help Foster Children through PTSD
10 Unorthodox Moments of the Adoption Experience
6 Lessons I've Learned from My Beautiful Children
Managing Trauma within Yourself as a Foster Parent
Adopting Olyvia: Our Story
31 Years After Being Abandoned in A Cardboard Box
Good Things to Come
Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2018
7 Tips for Going Through the ICPC Process
Curtis and Darlene Bell: Our True Calling
What Are Employer Adoption Benefits and Why Should I Care?
New Adoption Law In Georgia Shorten Adoption Process
6 Reasons You Should Use the Adoption Community
Snooki Reveals Adoption Story
What Writing an Adoption Blog Did for Me
3 Things to Do to "Survive the Wait"
Adoptee Celebrates First Fourth of July Event
Andrea Klug-Napier Finds Happy Ending in Reunion
5 Ways You Can Raise Adoption Awareness in Your Community
Love the Child You Have
Waiting Didn't Go Away Once We Were Matched: My Story
Pennsylvania Adoption Law Stalls in Senate
What Is the Adoption Connection?
Keeping Your Child’s Adoption Story Sacred
Foster Care Closet Making a Difference
What Is an Adoption Forum and Why Should I Care?
Arkansas Couple Nominated for Foster Parents of The Year
Adoption Counts Celebrate Anniversary with Bee Sculpture
Why Ethiopia Closed Their Doors to International Adoption
Moving Past Fear of Birth Family Rejection
Adoptees Gain Open Birth Records in Indiana
4 Reasons Why People Don't Foster
The Rescued and the Rescuer
Encouraging Relationships between Adopted and Biological Children
100-year-old Birth Mother Meets 79-year-old Daughter
Adoption Mythbusters Series Part 2: Only Rich People Can Adopt
Woman Finds Long-Lost Sister Living Next Door
5 Red Flags in Yourself before Adoption
Why I Chose Open Adoption
Nonprofit Organization Sends Families to Disney World
The Solution for Adopted Kids Struggling in School
U. S. Presidents Who Were Adopted
How Do Birth Mothers Cope after Placing a Child?
Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Improve Intercountry Adoption
New Report Shows 80% Decline in International Adoption
How Do I Teach a Small Child What Adoption Is?
How Does Open Adoption Affect Members of the Adoption Triad?
Why Don't People Know How to React to Adoptees?
International Adoption Reunions on The Rise
When and How to Discuss Open Adoption Relationships
4 Realities of Raising a Child from Another Culture
Why Do Some People Choose to Adopt Internationally Rather Than Domestically?
Meet 15-Year-Old Bella In Need of A Forever Home
What I Learned about Adoptive Parenting from 'Anne of Green Gables'
Why Do Foster Parents Get Paid?
4 Things An Adoption Lawyer Can Do
Do You Get Paid For Adopting A Child?
Romanian Adoptee Defies All Odds
Adoptees Should Not Be Kept from Searching for Biological Parents
How Do I Place My Baby for Adoption?
A Life Taken, A Life Given
How to Hire An Adoption Attorney
Parenting a Child with RAD
Adoptee Posts A Facebook Video in Search of Her Birth Mother
Why Choose Adoption Over Abortion?
Is Single-Parent Adoption Possible?
Federal Foster Care Funding Overhaul
How Can I Help My Adopted Son Know He's Loved?
What Are Some Tips When Visiting Orphanages?
British Colombian Adoptive Families Stuck in Japan Waiting For Visas
How to Show Love to Your Parents
10 Adoption Facts You Should Know
Single Superdad Adopting Number Five
Adoption in India
Adoption is Good
Rising Need for Foster Care in North Carolina
4 Great Adoption Grants You've Never Heard About
Is India's Adoption Policy Leaving Children Homeless?
How Can I Possibly Choose a Family to Adopt My Child?
How To Teach Your Family About Adoption
Are Adoptive Parents Getting Enough Time Off with Their Newborns?
Will My Child Hate Me If I Place Him or Her?
Sharane Calister From ‘The Voice’ Speaks at The Purple Project
7 Hilarious Moments of the Adoption Experience
4 Reasons Why You Should Understand Early Trauma in Children
A Woman with Cerebral Palsy Becomes An Adoptive Mother
What is PDD and PTSD?
How Adoption Blessed Two Lives
Birth Mother Doubts and Dissatisfaction After Placement
Adoption Prevents Child Trafficking
Why You Shouldn’t Fear What the Future Holds
What is Independent Adoption? Is it the Right Choice for Us?
Foster Care Counts
The 8 Best Adoption Songs Out There
5 Inexpensive Ways to Find Your Birth Parents
How Do I Overcome the Pain of Waiting for an Adoption Match?
Meet Bre'Anna, A Teenager With Big Dreams
4 Things You Should Remember When You’re An Adoptee
2 Ways You Can Celebrate Birth Moms and Adoptive Moms As An Adoptee
Expectant Mother vs. Birth Mother: What's the Difference
The Importance of A Father in A Child's Life
3 Fun Ideas for Open Adoption Visits
Reunited. It Feels So Good
Phoenix Teacher Adopts Student
Adoption Benefits Affected by The Family Medical Leave Act
10 Important Papers That Adoptive Parents Need to Know About
Overcoming Fears in Foster Parenting Part 2: What If They Have Needs I Can’t Handle?
Australian Genealogist Learns He's Adopted Through DNA Testing
Our Adoption Story: The Rescuer And The Rescued
The Danger of Foster Children Aging Out of the System
New Foster Care Act Gives Grandparents A Hand
The Good and the Bad of Foster Care: Bringing Out the Inner Hulk
How Parenting Reveals Your Weaknesses
Walmart Helps Employees Pay for Adoption Expenses
4 Things That Tell You Your Adoption is Ethical
The Reality of Raising a Child with Attachment Disorder
Adoptive Parents: It’s Okay to Say “No” to Adoption Opportunities
Stretching Ourselves: Adoption Travel – Part 2 of 2
'Dolphin Tale' Inspires Disabled and Adopted Children
How Can I Be A Good Parent When I Have No Experience With Kids
Brothers Sacrifice Electronics To Help Foster Families
Things I Wish My Biological Mother Knew
Korean Adoption Search and Reunion Update
Alaska Improves Foster Care Laws
Our International Adoption Story
What Is Kinship Foster Care?
How Adoption Started
The Pain is Real. Really Painful.
Sandra Bullock Shares Heartwarming Adoption Story
The Father Is Just as Important as the Mother in Adoption
Calculating Foster Adoption Costs
Why We Chose International Adoption
International Adoptees Deported for Lack of Citizenship
How To "Put My Baby Up" for Adoption?
Nebraska Foster Care Numbers Skyrocket
Why Should I Adopt Domestically When So Many International Children Need Homes?
Viral News Story Helps Five Siblings Find Their Forever Home
Can I Adopt a Child for Free?
Ireland Apologizes For Falsified Adoption Records
Why I'm Searching for My Korean Birth Parents - An Interview with Matt Blanchard
How Do I Survive in Two Different Worlds?
Taylor Swift Gives 2,000 A Sneak Peak of Her Tour
A Tribute to Fathers
How Is Fostering a Sibling Group Different from Fostering a Single Child?
What Should I Say To My Foster Child’s Parents When I First Meet Them?
A New Foster Home for Veterans Will Melt Your Heart
Meet Desian, an Outgoing 8-Year-Old
9 Adoption Cakes You Can Make
How South Korea Adoption Works
6 Ways to Cultivate Your Adopted Child's Culture into Your Life
Adopted Daughter and Donor
What to Look For in an Adoption Attorney
Mike and Chris’s Adoption Story
Top 14 Countries for International Adoption
Review of Adoptee Survey
Your Adopted Child’s Story: Lifebooks
Overcoming Fears in Foster Parenting, Part 1: Will I Have Enough Time?
Former Foster Child, Now a Foster Care Activist
Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Adoption
3 Reasons Why You Should Watch 'This Is Us'
Child Safe Michigan Assists Hopeful Foster Youth
Why Should I Even Care About the Language of the Adoption Community? Aren’t We Going Overboard?
Graduation Party for Foster Youth
What Should I Call My Birth Mother? An Adoptee's Perspective
What Should I Call My Birth Child?
There Is Still Good in the World
3 Things to Consider Before Paying "Birth Mother Expenses"
Discontinuation of Mandatory Orphanage Donations in China
Regression: The Many Ages of My Children
D.C. Mayor Announces Adoption
Why You Should Mentally Prepare Before Searching for Biological Parents
Interview with an Adoptee Who’s Using Music To Heal
A Heart for Genealogy Helps to Find the Missing Puzzle Pieces
A Real-Life Fraulein Maria: Adopting from Poland
The Importance of Biological Siblings: A Case for Open Adoption
I’m A Single Parent. I’m A Foster Parent.
Famous Athletes Adopt with Help from Jockey Being Family Foundation
5 Tips on Documenting Your Adoption Journey (Because Remembering Is Important)
Preparing Children to Answer Nosy Questions with Caliber
Family Benefits from Adoption Scholarship
Olympians to Bring 1,500 Out to the Ballgame
How Much of Your Child's Adoption Story Should You Tell Teachers?
Here's Why It's Okay to Have a Bad Day
Missouri Updates Adoption Laws
The Ugly Parts of Adoption and Parenting Not Talked About
Therapy and Adoptive Families
Austin Lee Pays Tribute to Biological and Adoptive Mothers
Mother’s Day Hopes and Dreams
Why Don't We Talk About Biological Fathers More?
'That Kind of Mother' Inspired by Interracial Adoption
4 Ways You Should Not Respond To Snobby Adoption Questions
Meet 5-year-old Michael
5 Reasons to Spend One-on-One Time with Your Children
What You Need to Know about Adoption Expenses
Adoption and Foster Care Forum Coming to Washington D.C. on May 24
4 Reasons Why Some People Have Bad Adoption Experiences and Others Do Not
Three Ways to Let Go of the Bad Parent Inside of You
Every Child Deserves a Family
May is National Foster Care Month
A Tale of Two Brothers
Why Should I Adopt Internationally When There Are Many Children in the U.S. Who Need Homes?
How Do You Choose Which Country to Adopt From Internationally?
Millennial Mom Advocates Foster-Adoption
What It’s Like To Adopt While Pregnant
President Trump Steps Up for Foster Care
3 Reasons You Should Not Give Up Waiting for Your Baby
"The Ghost Within" by Rebecca Tillou
A Rise in Foster Care in Wisconsin
Deconstructed "Doorways"
Sandra Bullock Speaks Out about Positive Adoption Language
Turning Tragedy into Hope
Why Aren’t We Adopting More Children Internationally?
Woman Reunites with Family After 40 Years of Searching
Daughter's Adoption Inspires Dad To Write and Release "Megan's Lullaby"
My Adoption Story: Natalie Brenner
6 Questions You Should Ask About Embryo Adoption
New Song Hits Home For Waiting Families
Foster To Adoption: What Is The Process Really Like?
Turkey Removes Age Requirement for Hopeful Adoptive Parents
Advice for a Single Adoptive Parent
6 Adoption Laws in New York that You Need to Know
This Special Adoption Will Melt Your Heart
How to Teach Your Friends About Adoption
Artist Finds New Culture Through Reunion
Post-Adoption Depression and the Value of Community
"Alexa, What Is Adoption?"
Adoptive Mother Shares Her Story of Mama Trauma
How Adoption Can Change the World
"The Voice" Star Shares Adoption Story Through Breathtaking Performances
Senate Passes the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act
Luke and Leia Were Adopted: A Star Wars Write-Up
What Korean Birth Mothers are Doing to Give Their Children a Better Life
Meet Nadiyah, a Happy and Curious Child Searching for a Forever Home
"A New Dress": This Is Why
How to Choose A Great Adoption Agency
Managing Multiple Open Adoptions When You've Adopted Multiple Kids
5 Things You Wish Your Adoptive Mother Knew
Family Gets Shocking News Five Months After Adopting
How Does Placing a Baby for Adoption Affect Teen Mothers?
What If I Want To Foster, But My Spouse Does Not?
5 Reasons I Put Off Searching for My Birth Parents
100th Child Adopted at ARC Adoption
15 Funny Memes about Parenting
10 Life-Changing Quotes: Part 3
How We Came To the Path of Adoption
5 Great Reunion Stories You Should Know About
Woman Found Her Biological Parents
Why Do Foster Parents Get Paid?
Family Finds Fundraising Opportunity and Helps Community
Stories from Families That Fostered Series: Part 1
How Do I Become a Foster Parent?
Mother with Rare Disorder Adopts
'Lion' and the Bond in Humanity
An Inside Look at Foster Homes: What They're Like
Can I Adopt a Native American Child If I'm Not Native American?
The Love of a Birth Mother
What To Expect in the First Few Hours of Bringing Your Child Home
4 Reasons Why You Should Adopt an Older Child
Dads and Adoption Part 2: Adoptive Dads
5 Tips for a Successful Garage Sale Adoption Fundraiser
How To Help Your Child through RAD
The Reality of Open Adoption Agreements
Open Adoption: It’s All about the Child
One Kid's Adoption Joke Inspires Teen to Write Stunning Tribute to Her Birth Mom
Treehouse Changing the Lives of Many
11 Great Adoption Books You Should Read
Adoption Mythbusters Series: Why International Adoption Still Matters
How Many Children Are in Foster Care? What Can I Do About It?
How To Support a Friend Experiencing a Crisis Pregnancy
Texas Girls, Pregnancies, and the Foster Care System
An Adoptee’s Perspective
Sailing into the Future
What Is Going On with International Adoption?
Norway Beautician Searches for Her Birth Mom Who Lives in India
Charlize Theron Opens Up about Her Adoption Experience
Adoptive Dad Creates Multi-Skin Tone Bandages That Are Now Debuting in One of America's Largest Retailers
Send Parents to Foster Care, Not Children
10 Sensory Play Experiences for Families to Share
Louisiana Foster Care System Might Extend to 21-Year-Olds
Adoptee Rights by State
Alaska Adoption Guide
Is 'Aging Out of the System' Working in Foster Care?
Why Adoptive Parents Shouldn't Fear Birth Parents
7 Best Adoption Fundraising Ideas
The Future of Foster Care
This Is Why Photolistings Are Important
5 Strategies for Helping Little Kids Cope with Big Emotions
3 Fun Ideas for Open Adoption Visits
Running with Your Heart
In Defense of Respite Care: Why You Might Need It (And Shouldn't Feel Guilty About Taking It)
10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Adopted Internationally
They Only Lived a Short Drive Away, But Spent Decades Apart
Chris Thrasher Seeks His Birth Mother on TLC
Cute Quotes About Adoption
Wednesday's Child: Michelle
Why Adoptive Parents Should Stay Out of the Nature Vs. Nurture Debate
Should I Tell My Kids We’ve Been Matched for an Adoption?
Adoption-Related Mother's Day Gifts You Don't Want to Miss
Missing 3-Year-Old Reunites with Birth Parents 24 Years Later
How to Prepare for a Successful Open Adoption
6 Reasons Why a Home Study Is Necessary
New Legislation in Kentucky Puts Children and Families First
Adoption by Shepherd Care: Creating Pathways for Families Through the Summer Hosting Program
Adoption Parenting and Secondary Trauma
4 Tips For Managing ICPC With A Toddler
4 Things I Wish I'd Known when Adopting a Second Child
High School Senior Organizes Connecting Hearts Adoption Conference
Dunker Family Finalizes Adoption of Two Sons from Colombia
Michael Reagan, Son of Former President Ronald Reagan, Raises Funds for Foster Kids
Common Fears and Uncertainties About Open Adoption
10 Life-Changing Quotes: Part 2
Man Rescued from Orphanage During Vietnam War Meets Birth Mother
Advice for Adoptive Parents of Kids with Extra Needs
How Adoption from China Works
Artist Traces Her Biological Father's History through Painting
5 Reasons You Need to Support Your Children Searching for Their Birth Parents
Senator Helps Preserve Funds for Adoption Incentive
The Importance of Telling Your Child He Is Adopted
Is it Possible to Adopt from Mexico? What You Need to Know
Bennett Advances Foster Care Legislation
What Is An Adoption Registry and Should I Sign Up for One?
4 Reasons You Should Support Your Child's Search For His/Her Birth Parents - and How to Do It
How Your Mental Health History Can Affect Your Adoption
Major Progress Made with Texas Foster Care
6 Things to Consider When Naming Your Adopted Baby
DNA Test Reunites Kieschnick with His Biological Family
8 Reasons to Have an Adoption Support Group
5 Best Adoption Quotes
Special Adoptions in Japan on the Rise
7 Adoption Movies You Should Watch With Your Child
Brothers Hope for Forever Home
Social Media Proves Miraculous for Family
Why I Dislike the Term "Our Birth Mother"
5 Weird Things That People Still Believe About Adoption
Steven Curtis: Grammy Award Winner and Father
19 Encouraging Quotes for Adoptive Parents
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