One of the best parts of our job as adoption coordinators is getting to watch the children we place grow up through letters and pictures sent by adoptive parents. In a way, we all become a family…we just happen to have a really big photo album. Much your like your grandparents love to make you […]
Read MoreI know that “Law and Order: SVU” is not a verbatim depiction of reality, but they do cull their plot lines from real cases — a fact which always intrigues me and feeds my obsession with the show. This really hit home last night when I watched an episode about a foster family who essentially […]
Read MoreThe relationship between adoptive family and birth mother is delicate to say the least. Of course, it is different for everyone, but there are a few unwritten rules that shouldn’t be ignored most of which are completely based on common sense. All parties involved are nervous, emotional, and sensitive and sometimes common sense gets lost. […]
Read MoreThe headline makes you believe you are about to read a moving story of an adopted child reunited with her biological mother 40 years after being kidnapped. After reading the short article (found at www.ktla.com) and related comments on this story, I had to read more. It seems this woman was kidnapped from her biological […]
Read MoreThe verdict in the Casey Anthony trial was heard around the world. What came as an aftershock to some of us in the adoption world was the news that one day, Casey Anthony, may want to adopt. Outrageous! For starters, what home study provider would ever approve her to adopt, what agency would ever work […]
Read MoreI am just going to come out and say it. You can have a successful placement without obtaining an encyclopedia of medical records and/or talking to your birth mother everyday. In fact, less contact can sometimes be better. We do recognize the importance of medical records and work very diligently to obtain that information, but […]
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