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A little information about your child's medical history goes a long way for finding and preventing risks.
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How to assess a newly adopted child's nutritional status and get a malnourished child's growth on track.
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Formulas, nutrition, and feeding — everything you need to know about filling your child's tummy.
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Our children learn from us how to express emotions.
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Imaginative play can bring your preschooler hours of fun — and offer a window into her adoption story.
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Preschoolers are starting to notice racial differences. Adoptive parents have a responsibility to talk about them.
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Reassure your child that you are his parent, forever and always.
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Many children reach a point where they pretend they aren't adopted, in an effort to not be different. Instead of being hurt, try to understand where they're coming from.
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Some school assignments ask for details that make our kids feel uneasy. But you — and your child's teacher — can help.
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Adoptive Families explores common situations you may face while parenting your adopted teen.
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Every teen is involved in the complicated process of forming an identity. For adoptees, the process has a few extra layers.
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Sometimes teens feel left out of the in crowd. Here's how to help.
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Are you prepared to receive the news that you've been chosen? If not, here are six things we wish we had known, before we became a family of three.
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I chose our route because I didn't feel comfortable adopting outside our race. Six bittersweet years of motherhood have taught me to look beyond appearances.
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Are you prepared to receive the news that you've been chosen? If not, here are six things we wish we had known, before we became a family of three.
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What it’s normal to feel, even after you adopt and fall in love with your child.
Are all the bewildering ups and downs I've experienced during our wait typical of the international adoption process?
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Introductions are often fleeting. But then there are those planned meetings that you know will touch you at your core.
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If breastfeeding had been easy in the past, adoptive breastfeeding couldn't be so different, or less rewarding, could it? More or less.
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Whether you feel most comfortable holding it after completing your dossier, or when you receive your referral — an adoption shower is a wonderful way to celebrate your growing family.
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To many people, sharing DNA and giving birth are the prerequisites to being a "real" mom. As my children's mommy, I know better.
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Introductions are often fleeting. But then there are those planned meetings that you know will touch you at your core.
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Would it really be possible to fill out my daughter’s hazy memories by typing names into a search engine?
When it comes to easing your baby’s transition to your home, consistency is key.
A decade of disappointing foster care placements made me doubt the two people who had taken me into their hearts.
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I asked my family not to come to the hospital when she was born, then mourned their absence. Enter her birth relatives.
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If breastfeeding had been easy in the past, adoptive breastfeeding couldn't be so different, or less rewarding, could it? More or less.
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I used to wonder whether my love for my son would be more intense if I'd given birth to him. Having a biological child validated the depth of my feelings the first time around.
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Introductions are often fleeting. But then there are those planned meetings that you know will touch you at your core.
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How to assess a newly adopted child's nutritional status and get a malnourished child's growth on track.
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When it comes to easing your baby’s transition to your home, consistency is key.
Family members, friends, and other parents can use our adoption experiences to broaden their children’s sphere of understanding.
An adoption scrapbook lets parents and children create a sense of history and of belonging.
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Seeing where she was born—where she stayed with her birth mom and where we met her—gave my daughter greater confidence in her adoption story.
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Family members, friends, and other parents can use our adoption experiences to broaden their children’s sphere of understanding.
As your teen's thinking becomes more sophisticated, she'll want to know more about her adoption.
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After a bump in the relationship with our daughter's birth mother, we're learning lessons about love, patience, and acceptance.
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Would it really be possible to fill out my daughter’s hazy memories by typing names into a search engine?
After a bump in the relationship with our daughter's birth mother, we're learning lessons about love, patience, and acceptance.
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As genetic testing makes its way into the adoption world, our families discover its promise — and its limitations.
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How we can help our children feel good about who they are — and where they’re from.
When the social worker brought my new daughter to my house, she wasn’t the African-American girl I was expecting. And so we became a transracial family.
How we can help our children feel good about who they are — and where they’re from.
Our society has gotten to the point where most people can agree that overt racism is wrong. Few would argue that segregation or using a racial slur is acceptable. But many more subtle forms of racism persist. Here’s how to combat them.
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I am angry at the price my son has to pay for his birth mother's decision to drink while pregnant — but I can't be angry at her.
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In this personal essay, one woman compares her adoptive motherhood with what her daughter will experience after pregnancy, and her quest to find answers.
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Fielding questions about adoption at school starts early. Is your child ready?
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Sometimes teens feel left out of the in crowd. Here's how to help.
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How one mother learns to be the role model her adoptive daughter needs–with her daughter's help, of course.
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When this big, multicultural family gets together for Thanksgiving, the table is laden with more than turkey and gravy.
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