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Nurture your child's love of reading with tales that shine a light on diversity and adoption.
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Ease your baby's transition into your home by caring for her feeding and sleeping needs.
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Breastfeeding may be possible, even if you havent given birth.
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When to encourage your child's flights of fancy, and when to insist on truth-telling.
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The best ways to promote your preschooler's literacy skills.
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As kids meet new friends—and their families—they face new questions about their past.
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Overindulging our children works to their detriment. Learn whyand howto set limits for your preteen.
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While preteens are gaining a better understanding of their adoption stories, they don't always know how to handle new feelings that arise.
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Each of your children has his own talents and abilities. How do you play fair?
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Got a Web-savvy teen on your hands? Here's how to set safety guidelines for online birth family contact.
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When they're angry at us, teens may bring up the subject of birth parents. Here's how to answer calmly.
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As teens seek independence, they rethink their relationships with all the adults in their lives — including birth parents.
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Four years ago, I legally became a mother. The adoption day was no less special because I had already been parenting Danielle for 15 months. On that day, I truly claimed my daughter. No one could take her away.
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“After four years of fertility treatments, a friend recommended that we attend an adoption seminar. My husband and I weren’t open to adoption, but we decided to go. The hour-and-a-half seminar changed our lives forever.”
Check out the average cost ranges for donor egg, donor embryo, and surrogacy, and see how they compare to adoption.
View the replay of the “Adopting When You’re Already Parenting” webinar. Beth Friedberg, LCSW, explore questions that arise the second time around, from deciding on birth order to preparing your child for a sibling, and more.
Domestic adoption in the United States has undergone a seismic shift in the last 30 years. When will popular perceptions catch up with the new, healthier reality?
Four years ago, I legally became a mother. The adoption day was no less special because I had already been parenting Danielle for 15 months. On that day, I truly claimed my daughter. No one could take her away.
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Mix one American couple, one preteen Russian boy, and one summer program...and what do you get? Family.
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Ease your baby's transition into your home by caring for her feeding and sleeping needs.
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My daughter's tenth birthday was the first birthday party she'd ever had. Here's how and why we decided to redo all the others.
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For eight years, my wife and I watched our chances of having a baby evaporate. Then our eleven-year-old niece came to live with us, bringing with her a bittersweet deliverance.
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My daughter came to me at nine years old, so neither of us knows what she looked like as a baby, but walking these aisles is a way for us to recreate what we both lost.
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Four years ago, I legally became a mother. The adoption day was no less special because I had already been parenting Danielle for 15 months. On that day, I truly claimed my daughter. No one could take her away.
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Answers to frequently asked questions on how to adopt from the U.S. foster system.
Are all children from foster care considered “special needs,” and, therefore, eligible for the full adoption tax credit?
Domestic adoption in the United States has undergone a seismic shift in the last 30 years. When will popular perceptions catch up with the new, healthier reality?
Tips for — and from — domestic adoptive parents on preparing for the emotional journey to meet your child.
An adoption attorney explains the legal steps surrounding your child’s birth when you adopt domestically.
Mix one American couple, one preteen Russian boy, and one summer program...and what do you get? Family.
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My daughter’s fascination with China was matched by her pleasure at sharing the return trip with friends who’d made the same journey.
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We finalized our daughter’s international adoption a few years ago, but haven’t gone through the naturalization process yet.
Parents weigh in on talking with their child's teacher and sharing resources at the start of a new school year.
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Even if you've made a scrapbook or lifebook for your child, kids this age like to tell their own stories. Here's how to help.
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After a late-summer day at the beach led to wistful new questions, this mom learned that talking about adoption with her child isn't always straightforward.
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Parents weigh in on talking with their child's teacher and sharing resources at the start of a new school year.
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“How do we disclose a lifelong medical condition to our child, and talk with her about lacking any information about her birth parents?”
A parent reaches out for help after taunting at school left her daughter feeling shaken to the core and that she doesn’t belong anywhere. An adult adoptee and transracial adoption expert offers advice.
I thought. I researched. I talked. But in the end, it took a leap of faith to adopt across racial lines.
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Kids need to be able to find characters who look like them in the books on their shelves. Here are some of our favorites that provide that powerful affirmation.
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A parent reaches out for help after taunting at school left her daughter feeling shaken to the core and that she doesn’t belong anywhere. An adult adoptee and transracial adoption expert offers advice.
Hepatitis B is a contagious virus that can be passed from a mother to a baby at or around the time of birth. It can also be passed from one child to another in an orphanage, through blood or body fluids.
How our children feel about a separation, and how we can help them cope.
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School projects that focus on family or personal history can be challenging or painful for children who were adopted. Learn why, and what you can do to create a more inclusive environment for the entire class.
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A parent reaches out for help after taunting at school left her daughter feeling shaken to the core and that she doesn’t belong anywhere. An adult adoptee and transracial adoption expert offers advice.
At nine, my daughter is becoming aware of the many ways in which the world is unjust, and is doing her part to promote fairness where she can.
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To the birth mother of my three children through adoption, wherever you are, I say thank you for allowing me to be their "other" mommy.
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