Foster Care & Adoption - Becoming a parent for kids who need a home

Sleep, baby, sleep, or so the poem goes. Chances are if you are a parent, the simplicity and ease of the poem can be frustrating to say the...

In our family, we are so blessed and thankful for adoption. That doesn’t mean we don’t recognize the loss that inevitably comes with...

If you have been touched by the gift of adoption, you probably know that November is National Adoption Month. National Adoption Month is...

Before I was a mom, I was one of those obnoxious, smug people who assumed I had all the answers. I had a fancy degree, had read hundreds of...

I felt completely unprepared to be a new foster mom to three children all at once. I am far enough removed from this particular event that...

I think all parents (biological, foster care, and/or adoptive), at some point in their parenting journey, feel jolts of regret: regret at...

Once upon a time, I would have laughed at the title of this article. I would have told you that it would never happen in my home. But the...

Amidst the complexities of the foster care system in the United States, over 400,000 children find themselves yearning for a glimmer of...

There are over 380,000 foster care children in the United States currently in the foster care system. Of these foster care children, more...

When we first began our adoption journey, I must admit that I felt like a lone drifting boat at sea. I filed my paperwork, anxiously...