Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Sharing Difficult Birth Parent Information
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Why Won’t My Child Stop Eating?
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Foster Care vs. Kinship Care
I have a five-month-old foster child whose case was recently transferred from kinship care to foster care. What does this mean?
Ask AF: A Spouse’s Reluctance About Adoption
My husband is fearful of a damaged child and of disrupting our stable lives, and he refuses to discuss adoption.
Ask AF: Celebrating Heritage
Answers to your parenting questions.
[Book Review] No Matter What
Sally Donovan's memoir is an honest portrayal of the challenges of adopting from foster care.
Ask AF: Restrictions to Adoption
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Kids’ Adoption Books to Donate
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Opening Contact
"We recently learned that our son's birth mother is having health problems. How do we tell him, and how can we ask for more contact?'
Ask AF: When Bonding Takes Time
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Wishing She Looked Like Mom
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Continuing Contact with the Birth Family?
Answers to your parenting questions.
[Book Review] Breeding in Captivity
A hilarious personal account of the ups and downs of infertility and adoption.
Ask AF: Birth Mother’s Day
Answers to your parenting questions.
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?
Ask AF: Blogging Basics
I'd like to blog to document our adoption process, and keep far-flung families up-to-date, but I'm not tech-savvy.