Whenever two spouses don’t agree about big life events—marriage, home ownership, finances, children—it can be incredibly lonely and discombobulating. Adoption is no exception. It is an intensely emotional, time-consuming, and potentially expensive process, and it definitely requires the agreement of both partners to move forward. Although it can be frustrating, we encourage you not to […]
Read MoreHappy Saturday! We’ve got some really informative pieces to information your weekend reading. Want to know how support teens with depression or children with Fetal Alcohol Disorders, get adoption benefits from your employer, or navigate a relationship with a spouse who’s on a different page about adoption? It’s all here! Enjoy, share, and we’ll see […]
Read MoreWe were at the eye doctor the other day with our youngest child, and the intake form asked us to clarify his race and ethnicity. As a transracial family (we’re white, he is biracially black and white), this got us thinking about how often adoption parents confront this question all the time. At the […]
Read MoreHappy Friday! We’ve got all sorts of stories for you this week, including TWO involving 23andMe and mystery adoptions. How crazy is that? We also have some very important pieces about adoption benefits in the workplace, plus an interesting opinion piece which ponders the question: could allowing agencies to assert religious freedom lead to an […]
Read MoreAdoption stigmas are abundant, and their harm is undeniable. They create shame and misunderstanding, and proliferate attitudes that have the potential to follow birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents throughout their lives. Let’s address a few, shall we? Stigma: Open adoption is bad for the child. Truth: This is false in every way. […]
Read MoreHappy Friday! Do we have an over-parenting crisis? Did you know mothers in Hungary can get up to three years of paid maternity leave? How do you feel about dating site technology being used to find homes for foster children? These topics and more are featured in this week’s roundup! <3 How does adoption affect […]
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