Parenting Tips for Adoptive Parents of Adopted Children

Adoption can feel beautiful. Adoption can feel like a dream come true. Adoption can also feel hard. Adoption can feel downright painful–wrapp

Imagine you are a child who’s been in a few different foster homes, and now you’re going to your adoptive home for the first time. Or i

(Photo credit: Keri Vellis) [Thirteen] years ago, author Keri Vellis’s husband came home with a heartbreaking story. Ted was a law enforcement of

Open adoptions can be beautiful and wonderful in so many ways. They allow the birth family to maintain a relationship with their biological child w

Adoption presents many challenges to both the (foster) parents and the child. Most adopters face problems they are often ill-prepared for including

When my husband and I began our journey to start a family, we were admittingly naive to what the process may entail for us. Now, many years later,

Oh, yes. Yes, they will.  Sometimes, adoptive families avoid talking about adoption. In history, adoption was seen as a shameful thing or somethin

TW: Suicide In 2014, a Portland-area psychologist was suspended after one of her young clients attempted suicide. The psychologist misdiagnosed the

Heartbreak and Healing in the Adoption Journey As I walked into the metropolitan hospital that had been my home away from home for years, I often f

I once had a deaf professor tell me that, as a deaf child, she had never seen or met a deaf adult. This meant that, in her childhood reality, deaf