My best friend Becka and her husband, Zack, have been trying for six years to add more children to their family of three. Becka and Zack have an 8-
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On this episode of the Gladney ReFRAMED Podcast, host Emily Morehead LPC, discussed the complexity behind birth parent identity in the adoption pro
Growing up as an adoptee, I always had the first day of school fun fact down to an art. I was so proud of being an adopted child and would boast of
A couple of months ago, a family friend of ours returned from a nearby town with a new-to-him fish tank, and a few buckets of fish he wanted to re-
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There was recently media coverage of an adoption dissolution that was discussed on a YouTube influencers channel. The outrage is that not only did
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