Happy Saturday! Pour a cup of coffee and snuggle up to some great reads on a gorgeous fall day. Do you have an innate fear of your child’s birth mother? This mother shares how she got over that fear and made the choice to accept her child’s birth mother as her friend. Traveling with kids […]
Read MoreReactive Attachment Disorder is a behavioral condition in which a child has difficulty attaching themselves to a parent or caregiver. It’s a devastating disorder for parents to endure because it can feel so hopeless — doing everything you can to nurture and love your child, while feeling and being treated like a total enemy. This […]
Read MoreHere are some of the articles we’ve been reading this week! This amazing free, downloadable guide from Adoptive Families features 60+ pages of information regarding adoption and infertility, including a directory of professionals all across the country. The ultimate goal is to help you build the family you want, while giving you as many tools […]
Read MoreThere are so many statistics that illuminate the foster care and adoption worlds, sharing the plight of the children, what their lives could and are as they grow, the agencies, families, and countries who advocate for them, and what it means to be a child growing up in these worlds. We can’t even begin to […]
Read MoreHere’s a look at the articles we’ve been reading this week: Thank you to HuffPost Parents for posting this roundup of hilarious tweets sent by moms and dads last week. Not only will you laugh your head off, there’s a lot of satisfaction in knowing that so many other people have kids who violently hate […]
Read MoreWe’ve said it before, and it’s not something we pretend isn’t the case: adoption is not cheap. There are very legitimate reasons for those costs, and the fees are necessary when it comes to supporting agency fees, birth mother needs, travel expenses and legal obligations. Although there is a cost associated with adoption, that cost […]
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