Child Adoptions Articles

Your Adoption Options

There are many different ways to adopt a child, and as you begin to explore your plans for your family, your capabilities, and learn more about the children who need families, you may alread... [more]

Older Child Adoption Lingo

I've always been intrigued by lingo, insider vocabulary. For example, in the restaurant world, they have words like "in theweeds" meaning a waitperson or the kitchen that is overw... [more]

Older Child Adoption: Becoming a Family (Russia)

The process went quickly. Called my local agency in May, left for Russia in November. Of course it had taken me six years to move from "I like kids…" to, "Me a mother. ... [more]

Foster Child Adoption

It's not unusual for foster parents to become interested in adopting a child who has been placed with them after they have come to know and bond with the child (this is different than fost... [more]

Stepchild Adoption

While it isn’t always the best solution, for many, stepchild adoption can offer many wonderful benefits to a child including permanency, sharing the family name, and reinforcing the s... [more]

Foster Child Adoption

The Federal Adoption 2002 initiative brought pressure to bear on the U.S. child welfare system to move children from temporary care into permanent family situations more expeditiously and... [more]

books about adoption challenges

As older child adoptive parents, we may have adopted with dreams of parenting a "regular" child. But we may be confronted with short-term or long-term challenges and issues. The fo... [more]

Types of International Adoption

In the U.S., those hoping to adopt have two basic options, when adopting from another country: Agency Adoptions through licensed private agencies (permissible inmany foreign countries)... [more]

Adoption Process

Adoption is the legal act of transferring parental rights to the adopting parents. However, the process of getting to that long-awaited moment is different for the different types of adopti... [more]

Older Child Adoption Lingo

I've always been intrigued by lingo, insider vocabulary. For example, in the restaurant world, they have words like "in theweeds" meaning a waitperson or the kitchen that is overw... [more]

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