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.
Setting Appropriate Behavioral Expectations
When younger children misbehave, they may not really know that they are misbehaving, and can be easily distracted or physically moved. But by age three to five, a child should be more aware of inappropriate behavior.
Ensuring Accuracy for International Adoptees
In early 2014, President Obama signed into law the Accuracy for Adoptees act, which will help remove bureaucracy and red tape for individuals who were given inaccurate birth dates in their birth countries, and their adoptive families.
What Drives Intercountry Adoption?
What changes the "demand" for adopted children around the world? Are market forces to blame?
“A Family Commitment”
In this personal essay, one adoptive mother describes how her family learns about her daughter's Chinese heritage at a school with other families.
Adoption and Divorce
My husband and I are contemplating a divorce. Will our daughter's adoption status figure into the legal proceedings?
Ask the Doctor: Anemia
Our medical expert explains symptoms, causes, and treatments that parents need to know when adopting a child with anemia.
State Adoption Laws Update, May 2015
Has your state recently changed its adoption laws? Check out AF's condensed list here.
Assessing a Referral
We've heard from our agency that we'll be receiving an adoption referral soon. What medical information will it contain, and how should we assess it?
Parent-To-Parent: Happy Adoption Day
Did you celebrate the day you met your child or his adoption finalization? Do you continue to mark that day every year? What do you call it? Members of our Facebook page shared their stories.
Parent-To-Parent: Like Parent, Like Child
On our Facebook page, we asked readers: How are you and your child surprisingly alike?
Parent-to-Parent: Was It Fate?
On our Facebook page we asked readers: Adoption stories often involve serendipity. Please share any amazing coincidences that arose on your journey to family. Here are some of your responses
Parent-To-Parent: Sharing Our News
On our Facebook page we asked readers: After you decided to adopt, who was the first person you told? What did he or she say? Here are some of your responses.