30 years later: A special report on the Korean adoptee experience
Feed Me! Formula Facts
Formulas, nutrition, and feeding — everything you need to know about filling your child's tummy.
Keeping Up Contact with Birth Parents
An open adoption arrangement may be buffeted by passing time and changing circumstances. Here's how to make your relationship endure.
Adapting School Assignments
Some school assignments ask for details that make our kids feel uneasy. But you — and your child's teacher — can help.
Refugee Adoption: A Whole New World for Our Daughters
Although the adoption of refugee children was more complicated than I expected, it has been infinitely rewarding. These children and their past are now part of me.
Ask AF: Insecure About a Sibling
We're adopting a second child, and we worry that our daughter's insecurity will lead her to compete with a new sibling. Any advice?
The Birth of Tradition
Family rituals take on new meaning when we adopt a baby.
“Will I Ever Be Able to Love This Child?”
When the first few weeks of parenthood were rocky, I found myself worrying: Did we adopt a child I'll never be able to love?
Waiting for Working Moms
Yes, it’s about your new family. But don’t forget to focus on your work life, too.
“Welcomed By Our Daughter’s Birth Family”
I asked my family not to come to the hospital when she was born, then mourned their absence. Enter her birth relatives.
Bonding with Your Baby
Whether you're adopting a newborn or a toddler, learn how to enhance attachment at each developmental stage.
A Mother’s Day Ritual
A simple ceremony with flowers and candles helped my children celebrate their love for two mothers.
[Book Review] Can I Tell You About Adoption?
The narrator, Chelsea, adopted from foster care, explains what adoption means and how it feels to be adopted.
Adopting a Baby: The Truth About Domestic Infant Adoption
Adopting a baby in the United States has changed dramatically in the last 30 years. When will popular perceptions catch up with the new, healthier reality? Here, an adoptive mother dispels common myths about adopting a newborn.
How to Prepare for Parenthood
After years of disappointment, adopting couples have a hard time believing that parenthood is just around the corner. But now is the time to get ready.
What Preschoolers Can Understand About Adoption
When your preschooler asks questions about adoption, use these age-appropriate answers that emphasize your family's love.
Breaking the Racial Sound Barrier
In a society that considers "color-blindness" a noble attitude, parents may worry about talking about racism, but we must do it. Here's how.
“Four Unforgettable Introductions”
One adoptive dad describes four introductions he'll never forget— those first moments when he met each of his four children but wasn't yet their father.
Planning for “the Call”
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.
“Rooting Our Children in Our Latino Heritage”
As Latino parents, we know firsthand the discrimination our children will face.