We asked our readers: Before your adoption, were you concerned about bonding with your baby? After your newborn came home, what parenting techniques did you practice that enhanced attachment?
Share Your Story: Choosing a Route
We asked our reader panel: "How, and why, did you choose between the different types of adoption?" This is what they shared.
“Our Daughter is Growing Up”
Our only child is away this week. It's a first for us, 11 busy years after we triumphantly carried our daughter home from the adoption agency.
“Adopting a White Child Across Racial Lines”
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.
What Preschoolers Can Understand About Adoption
When your preschooler asks questions about adoption, use these age-appropriate answers that emphasize your family's love.
To Have and to Hold: Attachment Parenting
AF looks at a hands-on parenting style that's natural for our families.
“Getting Rid of ‘Gotcha Day'”
What do you call the day your adoptive child came home? In this personal essay, one mother explains why "Gotcha Day" can be offensive for some adoptees.
“Two Very Different Paths to Attachment”
Our kids both came to us at 20 months old, but bonding with each child required very different tactics.
Ask AF: Adopting an Acquaintance
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Is Disability a Barrier for Singles?
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Considering Disruption
Answers to your parenting questions.
“Homeward Bound”
Retracing a journey I had made 23 years earlier inspired unforeseen emotions about my past, and about one child's future.
How We Afforded Our Adoption
We asked our reader panel: How did you finance your adoption? Share any cost-cutting or creative financing strategies with other readers.
Identifying Eczema
My son's skin is red, dry, and itchy. What's going on?
Is This Really Parenthood?
Your new baby is home and things are just great...right?
Share Your Story: Travel Tips
We asked our reader panel: Tell us your best tip for saving money on adoption travel! What did you do to bring your adoption travel costs down?
“No More Monkey Business”
Cake? Check. Invitations? Check. Favors? Check. Acknowledgement of racial injustice…? Choosing a theme for my son's birthday party involved more than we had anticipated.
“Seizing the Day”
I might never have decided to adopt had I foreseen what was to come in other areas of my life. But when I imagine life without my daughter, I know there was no other choice.
Affording Adoption
Adopting can be an expensive proposition. We analyze the costs, and show you how some families dealt with them.
“Balancing Act” — Part 5 of Foster Adoption Series
In part five of our family's adoption odyssey, we begin the tug-of-war also known as parenting a teenager.
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