As genetic testing continues to make headlines, more parents are wondering whether a simple cheek swab can teach them something about their child. We help you sort the facts from the hype.
Talking to Expectant Mothers Before a Match
We just completed our profile for potential birth mothers, and our agency told us to start expecting calls. How do we handle those first conversations?
Shifting Your Mindset to Become a Multicultural Family
After you adopt a child from another culture, how do you adapt to life as a multicultural family?
Sharing Difficult Details with Your Child
Experts offer talking tips and sample language for discussing neglect, abuse, abandonment, and other painful parts of your child's adoption story.
Feed Me! Formula Facts
Formulas, nutrition, and feeding — everything you need to know about filling your child's tummy.
Adoption Law: At the Hospital
An adoption attorney explains the legal steps surrounding your child's birth when you adopt domestically.
“Joining an African-American Church”
My wife and I were nervous the first Sunday we attended an African-American church. Would they welcome us? Would they stare? We should have had faith.
Searching for Self
Can't pry your teen from the computer? The Internet can be a great tool for finding identity and networking with other adopted teens.
Ask AF: Long Term Treatment for Emotional Problems
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Access to Foster Files
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Eligible to Adopt?
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Biracial and Multiracial Identity
My daughter's birth parents are Caucasian and African-American. How should we talk with her about race? How do we fill out forms that ask about race and allow you to check only one box?
New Kid on the Block
Adding to your family again? Ease the transition for your preschooler by being prepared for new-sibling anxiety.
Ask the Adoption Medicine Expert: Choosing a Doctor
What is important when choosing an adoption pediatrician? Our adoption medicine expert has answers.
Alleviating Children’s Money Worries
The recession is a grown-up problem, but kids may be having money-related concerns of their own. Here's how to calm their fears.
Timing of Adoption Update: 2007-2008
The results of the 2007-2008 Adoptive Families survey.
Creating a Support Network
I just came home with my new baby and I'm already feeling overwhelmed. How am I supposed to do all of this by myself?
The Role of Genes on Personality
It's easy to associate your child's soaring height or freckles with a birth parent, but what about his straight A's in science or his rosy outlook on life?
“Intimate Strangers”: Birth Parent Contact in Foster Adoption
The 894 pages of my daughter's foster care case history described her birth mother's hard life, scarred by poverty, drug addiction, and homelessness. I never expected to meet her—much less like her.