Answers to your parenting questions.
Explaining Troubling Birth Parent News
Tough topics can range from discontinued contact to a slip back into drug habits to unexpected medical problems.
Birth Fathers’ Rights: A Legal Guide
Your child's birth father is an important part of your child's adoption story, and has legal rights in relation to the adoption.
Adoption Support Groups for Teens
An adoption support group can provide a safe and comfortable venue for your teen to explore adoption and his larger identity in a new, more complex way.
6 Questions to Ponder Before Making a Homeland Trip
More and more families are finding that "going back," whether to San Antonio or San Salvador, gives their children a foundation for building identity.
Finding a Pediatrician
If you know nothing about the birth family's medical history, or your child's medical records are incomplete, you'll want a medical professional with first-rate diagnostic skills to focus on areas of possible concern.
“Choosing Not to Share My Children’s Adoption Story”
May I take my children to the grocery store or the library without announcing where they came from, or my own history? I think, yes.
“Our Stages of Labor and Delivery”
Although I did not endure physical childbirth, I know every emotion that pours in when motherhood begins.
Ask AF: Age-Appropriate Adoption Books
Answers to your parenting questions.
[Book Excerpt] Postcards from Cookie
I can think of lots of reasons not to make this call: I should be working. I’m on deadline. I’m not ready.
Ask AF: When Only Negative Details Are Known
Answers to your parenting questions.
Webinar Replay – “Imagining Your Future Child”
View the replay of the webinar "Imagining Your Future Child," with Lauren Jiang, LMSW, to learn how to decide on the age, racial identity, and medical history of the child you will be best equipped to adopt and parent.
[Book Excerpt] God and Jetfire
In April, Jonathan was nine months old. The colic had subsided, and he was practicing language that Paula described as “the funniest little combination of mumbling and humming.” She said his voice was very much a little boy’s voice.
Ask AF: Explaining Poverty
Answers to your parenting questions.
Our Family Adoption Story
Preschoolers love hearing about their adoption when it's told as a narrative designed to inform and comfort.
Intercountry Adoption Updates
Parents interested in adopting from Haiti, the DRC, or India should pay attention to these recent updates.
“Looking Different, Dressing Alike”
When we stepped into the next parking lot, she took my hand again. “It’s good we’re wearing our shoes,” she said. “We match. That way, people know we belong together.”
State Adoption Law Updates
What adoption laws changed in late 2015?
Kids in Foster Care Diagnosed with ADHD at Higher Rates
A new study examines attention deficit in children living in foster care.
“How I Feel About Using Donor Eggs”
I have talked with many people who have adopted or used donor eggs or sperm, and they all say the same thing: “It doesn’t matter at all! This is our child one thousand percent.”