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April 24, 2023
How to Adopt a Child Guide
Choosing to adopt a child and becoming part of the adoption community will change your life forever. The adoption process is a roller...
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December 02, 2022
Letter to a Birth Mom, From a Birth Mom
To a birth mom Dear Fellow Birth Mama, I’m coming to you in hopes that my words will give you hope. Maybe I’m hoping I’ll...
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November 30, 2022
Uplifting Words from One Birth Momma to Another
Sure. I could say all the normal platitudes about placing a child for adoption. You know, “you can always have more children,” or...
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August 27, 2021
6 Ways to Support a Birth Mother
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...
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August 27, 2021
6 Ways to Seek Quality Mental Health Care for Your Child
TW: Suicide In 2014, a Portland-area psychologist was suspended after one of her young clients attempted suicide. The psychologist...
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July 23, 2021
Boxing Champion Claressa Shields Talks Adoption
Making history in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as the first U.S. Boxer to win back-to-back gold medals, Claressa Shields has grabbed the...
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February 17, 2021
6 Tips for Charting the Waters of Unplanned Pregnancy
I feel an empathetic pang for the other women facing an unplanned pregnancy. The women considering adoption are various, but nearly all of...
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February 16, 2021
Adoption Loss – Praying For the Little Girl Who Was Almost Ours
In May of 2010, we had just signed on with our second adoption agency. Our profile had been showing for a little less than two weeks when...
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Stepparent
February 16, 2021
Adoption: Why it is for Everyone
As a writer for my own personal blog, I post frequently about adoption. Recently, I’ve come to the realization that many people, even...
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February 16, 2021
Continuing Proper Parenting Even When Under Negative Scrutiny
Doug and Deanne Walker have 19 children, 10 of whom are adopted. These loving parents have been up and down and all around adoption,...
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February 16, 2021
Almost My Daughter
This time of year always gets to be a little more than other times. The daughter we thought would be ours is turning two. When we...
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February 16, 2021
What to Do When an Adoption Opportunity Just Feels Wrong
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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June 30, 2020
Exclusive Interview with Jessica Butler
For this article, I had the amazing pleasure of interviewing Jessica Butler, who is the creator and editor of the blog Raise Magazine....
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March 18, 2020
5 Reasons Why Adoption Is SO Important
My heart was broken by the thought of so many children without loving homes, but I had no idea what to do about it. I was young and...
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