Adoption Home Study. Homestudy Papers.

The home study can be an overwhelming process. There are numerous background checks, visits with a social worker, and a lot of paperwork, but it is

“What motivated you to adopt?” You will hear various responses to this question; two examples would be wanting to help a child in an orphanage

So, you’ve decided to take the plunge and start foster parenting? Great! What do you need to have on hand before you get your first placement? Di

The home study process is time consuming and stressful, no matter how you go about it, but if you have chosen to pursue an international adoption,

Rehoming has such an ugly connotation, doesn’t it? Just thinking about it has always left me feeling down and sad and just plain old yucky. U

You know when you hear about some new start-up company or a new invention, and you wonder Why didn’t someone think of this before? Well, that

In order to officially become a family “hoping to adopt,” you have to pass a state mandated home study. What these home studies entail is diffe

I am not exactly a social media maven, so the fact that I’m writing this article at all is somewhat amusing. I don’t use Twitter or Instagram o

New York City. The Statue of Liberty glistens in its harbor. The ultimate symbol of what this country stands for. Ellis Island is just a stone’s

When I found myself pregnant at 18, unmarried, no longer with my boyfriend, and fresh out of high school, I panicked. Strangely enough though, I wa

I tracked down my biological father about five years ago, piecing together information provided to me by my birth mother and building on what I fou

 When I read Teaching Your Children Values by Richard and Linda Eyre, I was a young mom and knew that I did, indeed, want to teach my children val

This time of year every church and school seem to have up a “Giving Tree.” You know, the ones where you choose a child or family to ‘

Like snowflakes, no two adoption stories are the same–similar on many levels, but look closely and you’ll spot a world of differences. Adop

I recently wrote about our love and devotion to my daughter’s birth mother. After it posted, I received quite a few messages of longing and confu

Oh. My. Gosh! January 10 cannot come soon enough when This Is Us picks up again. “Last Christmas” was the perfect episode to end the season. Si

“Just adopt.” Right? How many times have you heard that? It’s as if the minute you decide to adopt, a child will magically appear. To those o

Talking to your children about S-E-X is never something a parent looks forward to doing. And the questions never seem to come at an opportune momen

I am a single mom by choice. Both of my children joined my family through foster care adoption, and although our life together is not perfect, I wo

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