Even preschoolers can get stressed by holidays. A few simple games and activities can ward off the meltdowns.
Questions to Ask Before Choosing an Adoption Agency
Deciding on an adoption agency can be an organizational challenge. Read up on the best questions to ask before making your choice.
How Long Does It Take to Adopt a Child?
The adoption timeline can vary dramatically, depending your chosen route. This general overview explains a typical adoption schedule, requirements at each step, and common expenses.
“Deciding to Adopt Older Siblings from Foster Care”
At first, we envisioned welcoming a baby into our home. But we soon discovered that adopting older children was right for us.
Baby Shock: Dealing with Post-Adoption Depression
Your beloved child is home! You should be joyful, happy, ecstatic. But instead you're tired, frustrated, and overwhelmed. What's happening?
A Child to Love
The path to adopting a child for many involves becoming a foster parent first. Learn about the risks, rewards, and responsibilities of caring for children in the U.S. foster care system.
Parent-to-Parent: The Great Gotcha Debate
The term "Gotcha Day" has ardent fans and strong detractors in the adoption community. We asked Adoptive Families readers how they feel about it, and whether they use the term in their family. Here's what you said.
Ask AF: Treating Eczema
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: My Child Is a Bully
Answers to your parenting questions.
Learning and Language Difficulties
Language difficulties affect children from all backgrounds and walks of life. Here's what to look out for.
The Tales They Tell
Preschoolers love stories. Listen carefully and you might learn a thing or two.
“Why We Chose Foster Adoption”
Foster adoption was right for these three families. Read their stories to find out why.
View the Parenting After Transracial Adoption Webinar Replay
View the replay of a webinar with Beth Hall to learn about parenting after transracial adoption and hear answers to commonly asked questions from adoptive parents.
The Continuing Adoption Conversation
Around age six or seven, children start to wonder, "Who am I?" This is when our children can truly understand that joining your family through adoption means they left another.
News Brief: Legislation to Strengthen Support Services
Reuters recently published an in-depth investigation, "The Child Exchange," outlining the illegal practice of exchanging children who were legally adopted.
News Brief: China Eases One-Child Policy
The government of China has decided to ease its longstanding one-child policy, in response to declining birth rates and human rights interests.
Ask AF: Sharing Negative Information
My nine-year-old daughter was adopted as an infant. She's been asking me about her birth parents, so I searched. I was devastated by the information I found, and have no idea when and how to reveal the details. Her birth mother died from complications due to alcoholism; her birth father has done time in prison and is now AWOL.
Foster Adoption: Fast Facts
More and more families are starting to consider foster care. Find out why.
“Choosing Which Country to Adopt From (Twice)”
Growing up in a mostly white, Midwestern town in the late 1970s and early 80s, watching reruns of The Donna Reed Show and Leave It to Beaver, I figured I would finish school, find a girl to marry, buy a little house with a white picket fence, and have a couple of kids who looked like me. This was the middle-class American dream, and at the time it never occurred to me that life would turn out any other way.
Ask AF: When Mom Feels Hurt
Answers to your parenting questions.