International, Intercountry & Overseas Adoption Process & Cost

“Good night,” I whisper into my son’s ear as I hold him in my arms. I’ve just finished singing his bedtime song and his head and re

On a recent visit to my house my mother presented me with a large box of keepsakes. In it were my report cards, letters home, and duplicates of my

Since the dawn of intercountry adoptions in the United States post-1945 intercountry adoptions have almost exclusively been “closed.” Children

Through despair comes beauty. That is the story of Michaela DePrince. Michaela was born with vitiligo, “a disease that causes patches of skin to

What do you think of when you hear the words, “drop box?” In 2012, South Korea tightened adoption requirements and adoption agencies could no l

The build up to finally meeting your adopted child can be so overwhelming and exciting that considering the next steps can easily slip your not-eve

When you decide to adopt a child one of the first big decisions you will make is whether to adopt domestically or internationally. When I was initi

I’m sitting on a riverboat half-listening. It’s the umpteenth time we’ve taken this trip, but for my family, it’s our San Antonio pilgrimag

Dear Home In Turmoil, Please believe me when I say I understand your pain. I may not know your exact personal circumstances, but I do know that the

Many of us dream about the type of parent we want to be. I always thought I would adopt, but I didn’t always know I would have a transracial fami

Madonna’s recent adoption of four-year-old twin girls from Malawi has once again brought the issue of celebrity adoptions into the spotlight. As

In this day and age, it’s not always popular to say “It’s a God thing.” However, I truly believe it was. You see, I had thought about inter

There are some adoption topics that everyone has an opinion on, and many of those opinions are vastly different from one another. Naming an adopted

I remember the day like it was yesterday. Blue sky. Sunshine. Gentle breeze. Quiet neighborhood–except for a dog’s bark echoing in the dist

I always pictured motherhood as an instantaneous burst of complete and eternal love. Of course, I had heard of postpartum depression with birth mot

The day has arrived. The day you have been waiting months and months for, that you have dreamed about, and worked so hard for. You are going to mee

I am a transracial adoptive mother. My four-year-old son is black, I am white, and my husband is Asian. We have many differing shades of skin, colo

Take a look around your house–the kitchen where you gather each morning to eat breakfast, the living room where you crash into your favorite

Throughout my life, I have heard lies, fibs, and myths. I think back over the content that made up these non-truths, and I find a couple common thr

As a former adoption professional serving as Executive Director of Joint Council on International Children’s Services and as the former Program D