Answers to your parenting questions.
Readers’ Favorite Children’s Books
We turned to the community to compile our list of the best children's adoption books. Many of you recommended your favorites on Adoptive Families Circle.
Ask AF: Answering Complex Questions
Answers to your parenting questions.
Readers’ Favorite Adoption Memoirs
Once again, we turned to the Adoptive Families community to compile our Fifth Annual Best Adoption Books List. Hundreds of you recommended your favorite adoption memoirs on Adoptive Families Circle. These favorites reached the top of the list.
Ask AF: Are Homestudies Transferable?
Answers to your parenting questions.
What’s Happening to My Body?
How can you help your child deal with the physical and emotional changes that puberty brings?
Ask AF: An Agency Hurdle
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Gaining Comfort with Adoption Talk
Answers to your parenting questions.
Before the Adoption: Connecting With Expectant Mothers
What to share, what to discuss, what to look for, and what to expect when you start to look for an expectant mother.
Standing Up to Bullies
How can you respond to bullying or protect your teen from becoming a target?
“Pondering My Son Mateo’s Family Tree”
My son's story started before I met him. His pre-adoption prologue is one I may never know. But of this I am sure: Mateo was born to be my son.
“Becoming Parents Through Surrogacy”
Our path to family had its share of twists and turns. That was how we landed at Plan J, also known as becoming parents through Indian surrogacy.
Ask AF: Who is My Daddy?
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Prenatal Substance Exposure
We are in the process of adopting a child who may have been exposed to drugs prenatally. How can I learn more about this topic?
Ask AF: Sleep Problems
After two bumpy years, we finally got my daughter, now five, to sleep through the night. But she's recently had a slew of sleep problems: night wakings, anxiety at bedtime, and so on. Is this because of adoption? What can we do? We are exhausted!
Video: Open Adoptee Experiences
In this open adoption video, teen and young adult adoptees who grew up knowing their birth parents share their thoughts and experiences.
Explaining Donor Conception in Assisted Reproduction
Experts offer advice on how to talk to your child about donor conception.
“Each Stage of Adopting our Miracle ‘Rainbow Baby'”
Sometimes life doesn't live up to your hopes; at other times, it surpasses them. When my wife and I got the call, life went beyond my wildest dreams.
Webinar Replay – Adoption Paperwork
View the replay of the webinar "Adoption Paperwork, Explained," with Ketiwe Boahene, to learn about all the documentation required for your adoption home study, why you need it, and how to obtain it.
ART: The Legal Perspective
An attorney explains what laws apply when you build your family through assisted reproduction.