What’s the best way to facilitate attachment with our newly adopted baby?
Family, Far and Near
Planning a trip to see second cousins or great aunts? Before you travel, help your child and relatives expand their conceptions of family.
The First Year of an Open Adoption: Four Families Share
Families with different levels of contact offer glimpses into their relationships with birth parents during their first year home.
Helping Your Child Understand a New Sibling
How to prepare your child for a new sibling.
“The Stages of Waiting”
Are all the bewildering ups and downs I've experienced during our wait typical of the international adoption process?
The Second Time Around
You've decided you're ready to grow your family — again. Here's help with answering the questions you didn't have to ask the first time you adopted.
First Conversations with Kids About Race
Bringing up race and racism to your kid can be tough — but it should be done sooner rather than later.
“Older, Wiser, and Warming Bottles”
Adoptive parents pushing the mid-century mark are joining playgroups and diggingDora the Explorer. What's age got to do with it?
[Book Review] I Am Latino: The Beauty in Me
The team that brought us Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children created another wonderful book with simple text and full-color photos.
Establishing a Routine
When it comes to easing your baby's transition to your home, consistency is key.
6 Questions Every Adopted Teen Wants Answered
In this excerpt from Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens, we take a look at what goes on in the minds of teens, and offer advice for talking with them.
A Growing Awareness
Between the ages of nine and 12, children register the meaning of adoption–and this can bring harder questions and more complex emotions. AF takes a look at what's going on in the minds of preteens, and offers advice for talking with them.
“An Unmatched Set” Can I Love a Child Who Doesn’t Look Like me?
Could I love a child who doesn't look like me? Yes. More than I've ever thought possible.
The Reluctant Spouse
Don't be surprised if your mate resists adoption even as you are embracing it.
Ask AF: Talking About Adoption in School
We're moving to a much smaller and less diverse town. I would like to talk to give an adoption talk at her school, but she seems embarrassed by this idea.
“What the Books Didn’t Tell Me”
When Christopher joined our family at age three, I had to set aside my tried and true parenting methods in favor of the sort of nurturing he'd never known.
“When Will an Expectant Mother Pick Us?”
During the long wait for an adoption match, friends and family may be sympathetic, but they don’t understand the anxiety that leads you to question every aspect of your adoption profile — and yourself.
More Than Just the Blues
How to recognize and cope with post-adoption depression.
Do We Stop at Just One?
Wondering whether to raise an only child? Half of all adoptive families do. How they thrive, despite occasional (or frequent!) second thoughts.
“No Longer Hoping for a Miracle Pregnancy”
An imminent hysterectomy is helping me realize that I no longer want to become pregnant — I only want to be the best mother I can be to my children, who came to me through adoption.