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Our recommendations for online adoption resources — from government sites to attorney directories — selected by the editors of Adoptive Families magazine. International “Finding My Inner Mom”
For more than four decades Adoptive Families has provided readers with trusted perspectives from respected adoption experts and a sense of community from real-life personal stories written by adoptive parents, adoptees, birth parents, and others touched by adoption.
“Understanding Open Adoption”: A look at open adoption today. Adoption Law “Adoption Laws By State” : Learn about your state’s newborn adoption regulations, from allowable birth mother expenses to termination of parental rights and adoption finalization
Attaching in Adoption covers the full range of attachment challenges—from the transitory to the traumatic and from infancy to adulthood. Gray’s approach is positive, practical, and realistic, providing age-specific advice with clear explanations of developmental stages and checklists to help parents assess how their child is doing at each ...
Adoptive families must find information or individuals that can portray the birth family as real people—a mixture of good and bad. Children need a full picture of their family of origin, so that they can identify with more positives than negatives.
Adoptive Families readers share the when, what, and how of announcing their decision to grow their families, and explain how to deal with reluctant relatives.
When he found us, he was eager to claim us as family. But is that really what we were?" A woman shares the story of meeting her birth sibling and offers advice for others contemplating search or faced with a reunion.
One challenge faced by families who adopt older children is the birth family. In our case, a teenaged brother and maternal grandparents the children adore — and an aunt and uncle who are temporarily holding up our adoption as they wage a legal battle over custody — an honor they abused and lost long ago.
A prospective adoptive family must demonstrate that they can provide a permanent home for a child or a sibling group, and that they can provide a safe environment and support the child’s physical health, mental health, and educational and social needs.
In any given year, there are about 75,000 adoptions in the United States (this isn’t counting adoption by step-parents). About two-thirds of the children are adopted from U.S. foster care , often by their foster parents.