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9 Pre-Adopt Must-Reads

June 19, 2018

Adopting from Foster Care
Adopting a Baby: The Truth About Domestic Infant Adoption
“Writing, Then Re-Writing, Our ‘Dear Expectant Mother’ Letter”
The Top Ten Myths (and Facts) About Adoption
Building Your Family – The Infertility and Adoption Guide
International Adoption – Country Overviews and Agency Listings
Surviving the Home Study
Hiring Your Adoption Professional
Surviving a Winding Road to Adoption

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Adopting
- Share Your Story: Announcing Your Decision to Adopt - November 18, 2017
- Online Adoption Resources for Prospective Parents - September 20, 2017
- Parent-to-Parent: My Best Domestic Adoption Travel Advice - August 16, 2017
- The ICPC: An Updated Overview - May 10, 2017
- Share Your Story: Domestic Adoption and Attachment - March 28, 2017
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- A Helping Hand Through the Foster Adoption Process - November 27, 2017
- Ask AF: Explaining to Our Child That We Can’t Adopt Her Foster Sister - October 23, 2017
- Online Adoption Resources for Prospective Parents - September 20, 2017
- News Brief: Domestic Adoptions Rise Slightly, Despite Overall Decrease in Adoption - February 23, 2017
- News Brief: More Children in Foster Care Than One Year Ago - January 23, 2017
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- “Visiting Our Daughter’s Russian Orphanage” - March 3, 2018
- News Brief: Transition to New Accrediting Entity for U.S. Adoption Service Providers Leads to Increase in Fees - February 23, 2018
- “You Have Thousands of Angels Around You” - February 3, 2018
- News Brief: Ethiopia Passes Law Banning Intercountry Adoption - January 24, 2018
- News Brief: Council on Accreditations (COA) Officially Withdraws as Accrediting Entity - January 24, 2018
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- Are You Considering Transracial Adoption? - March 22, 2018
- “Beyond All Expectations” - March 12, 2018
- “A Family Renewed” - February 25, 2018
- Ask AF: What to Consider Before a Kinship Adoption Placement - February 21, 2018
- “A Different Kind of Sister” - January 20, 2018
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- Adoption Cost and Timing in 2016-2017 - February 23, 2018
- How Do You Respond to “How Long Did It Take You to Adopt?” - January 24, 2018
- Adoption Tax Credit Now Preserved in the Tax Reform Proposal - November 3, 2017
- Take the Adoption Cost & Timing Survey - October 26, 2017
- Adoption Cost and Timing in 2015-2016 - February 21, 2017
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- News Brief: WHO Set to Broaden Definition of “Infertile” to Include Singles and Same-Sex Couples - November 14, 2016
- From Infertility to Adoption - August 11, 2016
- 18 Key Questions to Ask a Surrogacy Program - August 3, 2016
- 12 Key Questions to Ask a Prospective Egg Donor Attorney - August 3, 2016
- Surrogacy Cost and Health Insurance - August 3, 2016
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The Process
- Share Your Story: Who Helped With Your Adoption? - April 1, 2017
- Ask AF: Why Just One Adoption Attorney Won’t Do - July 8, 2016
- Ask AF: Adoption Fraud - February 29, 2016
- What Happens if my Agency or Attorney Screws Up? - December 21, 2015
- Questions to Ask Your Potential Adoption Attorney - December 18, 2015
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- “Uncharted Territory” - December 19, 2017
- Parent-to-Parent: Preparing for the Adoption Home Study Visit - November 16, 2016
- Baby Safety Tips - July 27, 2016
- Ask AF: Revealing Health Problems During a Home Study - July 23, 2016
- Ask AF: Disclosing Criminal History in a Home Study - July 22, 2016
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- Parent-to-Parent: The First Time You Saw Your Child - March 1, 2018
- Parent-to-Parent: How to Get Through a Failed Match or Placement? - February 21, 2018
- “Where Were You When You Got The Call?” - February 2, 2018
- “Uncharted Territory” - December 19, 2017
- Share Your Story: Choosing a Gender - November 5, 2017
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- Ask AF: Responding to Insensitive and Discouraging Comments During the Wait - May 24, 2018
- Ask AF: Because Baby Showers Are Bad Enough Without Nosy Questions… - March 16, 2018
- “A Child’s Garden” - February 24, 2018
- Adoption Day Gifts From Russia, with Love - February 13, 2018
- How Do You Respond to “How Long Did It Take You to Adopt?” - January 24, 2018
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- How to Photograph Your Adoption Trip - March 30, 2018
- 10 Tips for Adoptive Parents - March 5, 2018
- Ask AF: When and How to Find a Pediatrician During the Adoption Process - February 21, 2018
- 10 Steps to Adoption - February 6, 2018
- “Uncharted Territory” - December 19, 2017
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- Ask AF: What Adoptive Parents Need to Know About Hepatitis B - September 28, 2016
- List of Recommended Post-Arrival Medical Evaluations - September 17, 2016
- Questioning Medical Myths About Adoption - August 3, 2016
- Ask the Doctor: Pre-Adoption Medical Assessment - July 25, 2016
- Ask AF: Building a Good Relationship with Your Pediatrician - July 7, 2016
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Bonding
- Lessons I’ve Learned from My Children - May 24, 2018
- “Black, White, and the Cornrow in Between” - March 2, 2018
- Yes, You Can Breastfeed - February 19, 2018
- “The Adoption Advantage” - November 28, 2017
- Share Your Story: Baby Carriers - November 4, 2017
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- Ask AF: Your Older Child’s First Day Home with You - January 24, 2018
- “A Different Kind of Sister” - January 20, 2018
- Ask AF: Transitioning Children to Calling Us “Mom” and “Dad” - August 17, 2017
- “Are Adoptive Moms Allowed to Have a Bad Day?” - July 25, 2017
- “Awake at Last” - March 28, 2017
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- Parents Share: Celebrating with an Adoption Shower - May 24, 2018
- Adoption Day Gifts From Russia, with Love - February 13, 2018
- Adoption Shower for Toddlers or Older Children - January 28, 2018
- “Santa’s Dilemma” - December 25, 2017
- “What ‘Gotcha’ Means to My Family” - December 22, 2017
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- Lessons I’ve Learned from My Children - May 24, 2018
- “My Snuggle Boy” - April 25, 2018
- Creating a Photographic History for an Older Child - March 19, 2018
- “One of the Missing Pieces” - March 19, 2018
- Adoption Shower for Toddlers or Older Children - January 28, 2018
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Talking
- The Talk: Revealing the Realities of Racism to My African-American Child - May 30, 2018
- Talking with Your Teen - May 21, 2018
- What Do Preteens Think About Adoption? - April 25, 2018
- Ask AF: How to Explain Fostering and Concurrent Planning to Our Children? - April 25, 2018
- In Adoption, the Loving is the Same - April 8, 2018
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- Ask AF: Responding to Insensitive and Discouraging Comments During the Wait - May 24, 2018
- “I Can’t Believe She Just Said That!” – Biggest Adoption Misconceptions - April 25, 2018
- Parent-to-Parent: “Your Child Looks Just Like You!” - March 19, 2018
- Ask AF: Because Baby Showers Are Bad Enough Without Nosy Questions… - March 16, 2018
- How Do You Respond to “How Long Did It Take You to Adopt?” - January 24, 2018
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- “This Is For Real” - April 15, 2018
- “Finding Peace Through the Adoptee Community” - January 24, 2018
- Teens Speak Out About Open Adoption - January 17, 2018
- “Mom, Were You Alive During Woodstock?” - November 30, 2017
- “Mommy, Were You Adopted?” - November 29, 2017
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- Creating a History for Your Teen During Infancy - December 29, 2016
- Child-Created Lifebooks - June 20, 2016
- Adoption Scrapbooks Made Easy - June 17, 2016
- A Tale to Treasure - June 12, 2016
- Adoption Scrapbooks: A Link to the Past - June 1, 2016
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- The Talk: Revealing the Realities of Racism to My African-American Child - May 30, 2018
- Ask AF: How to Explain to My Child That His Birth Mother Was Addicted to Drugs? - May 24, 2018
- Ask AF: How to Share Sad News About a Birth Parent? - April 25, 2018
- “One of the Missing Pieces” - March 19, 2018
- Ask AF: Explaining to Our Child That We Can’t Adopt Her Foster Sister - October 23, 2017
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Transracial
- “Race…and Starbucks” - March 19, 2018
- “This We Believe” - March 15, 2018
- TB and Adoption: What Parents Needs to Know - March 13, 2018
- “Our Domestic Heritage Trip to San Antonio” - January 21, 2018
- “A Visit to My Daughter’s Homeland” - December 18, 2017
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- How to Support Your Teen’s Developing Racial Identity - June 4, 2018
- The Talk: Revealing the Realities of Racism to My African-American Child - May 30, 2018
- Connecting With the Black Community - May 23, 2018
- “This Is For Real” - April 15, 2018
- “At Home in Two Worlds” - March 31, 2018
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- Connecting With the Black Community - May 23, 2018
- “How I Parent My Transracial Family” - October 30, 2017
- “Keeping Up Appearances” – Our Skin and 4C Hair Care Routine - October 24, 2017
- “Memory Givers” - September 1, 2017
- Parent-to-Parent: Explaining Attention and Questions from Strangers - July 18, 2017
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Openness
- “Meeting Jennifer” – Opening a Foster Adoption - May 24, 2018
- Ask AF: What to Consider Before a Kinship Adoption Placement - February 21, 2018
- Ask AF: Will Our Son See His Birth Mother with Her New Baby and Wonder, Why Not Him? - January 24, 2018
- Teens Speak Out About Open Adoption - January 17, 2018
- Ask AF: Explaining to a Child That His Sibling Will Be Adopted By Another Family - December 22, 2017
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- “Visiting Our Daughter’s Russian Orphanage” - March 3, 2018
- The Four Agreements in Open Adoption - February 26, 2018
- “A Delicate Balance” - January 16, 2018
- “The China Sisters” - November 23, 2017
- Parent-to-Parent: Like Birth Mother, Like Child - October 24, 2017
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- Ask AF: Explaining to a Child That His Sibling Will Be Adopted By Another Family - December 22, 2017
- “Letting Go After Months of Struggling to Parent” - May 9, 2017
- Bringing Birth Siblings Into Our Children’s Stories—and Lives - January 25, 2017
- The Birth Parent Perspective: Stats and Chart - October 19, 2016
- “Finding My Place in the Family” - October 17, 2016
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- “Meeting Jennifer” – Opening a Foster Adoption - May 24, 2018
- Ask AF: How to Share Sad News About a Birth Parent? - April 25, 2018
- “Sister—a Role I Wasn’t Ready to Play” - April 25, 2018
- The Paternity Test, Part 2: “The Results” - February 21, 2018
- The Paternity Test, Part 1: “I Hope It’s Them” - January 24, 2018
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Parenting
- How to Support Your Teen’s Developing Racial Identity - June 4, 2018
- Lessons I’ve Learned from My Children - May 24, 2018
- Talking with Your Teen - May 21, 2018
- What Do Preteens Think About Adoption? - April 25, 2018
- Your Job as Consultant and Coach - April 21, 2018
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- “Overcoming All Odds” - March 26, 2018
- 3 Tasks for College-Bound Adoptees - February 21, 2018
- A Guide for Teachers: Helping Classmates Understand Adoption - February 8, 2018
- Ask AF: Encouraging a Cohesive Racial and Cultural Identity - November 17, 2017
- Share Your Story: Adoption & School - November 2, 2017
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- Ask AF: How to Explain to My Child That His Birth Mother Was Addicted to Drugs? - May 24, 2018
- TB and Adoption: What Parents Needs to Know - March 13, 2018
- Ask AF: When and How to Find a Pediatrician During the Adoption Process - February 21, 2018
- Yes, You Can Breastfeed - February 19, 2018
- My Daughter, the Shoplifter - October 24, 2017
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- Lessons I’ve Learned from My Children - May 24, 2018
- Creating a Photographic History for an Older Child - March 19, 2018
- Ask AF: When a Child Questions Adoption vs. Biology - March 19, 2018
- “Buying the Lie About Infertility and Adoption” - February 26, 2018
- Ask AF: What to Consider Before a Kinship Adoption Placement - February 21, 2018
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- The Wrong Crowd? - October 17, 2017
- Helping Teens with Transitions - September 6, 2017
- When Boys are Bullies and Girls Are Mean - July 14, 2017
- “A Balanced View of Adoption” - June 13, 2017
- Sometimes Making Friends Takes Practice - June 4, 2017
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- Parent-to-Parent: Holiday Gifts for Your Child’s Birth Family - December 19, 2017
- 2017 Gifts that Give Back - November 16, 2017
- 2017 Holiday Gift Guide - October 13, 2017
- “Anniversary” - February 21, 2017
- Parent-to-Parent: My Favorite Adoption Memory - January 23, 2017
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- “Mom, Were You Alive During Woodstock?” - November 30, 2017
- 2017 Cover Photo Contest Winners - November 27, 2017
- How to Talk About “Dad” in Single Mother Families - September 2, 2017
- “My Single Mother’s Legacy” - April 25, 2017
- “And Baby Makes Three” - April 13, 2017
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