Real Parents Provide Discipline

Setting limits can be tough for parents–but it's important to discipline our children anyway.

Alleviating children's financial worries

Alleviating Children’s Money Worries

The recession is a grown-up problem, but kids may be having money-related concerns of their own. Here's how to calm their fears.

Attachment Through the First Year with Your Child

First Year Home: Now What?

Expert answers to all your common questions about sleeping, feeding, bonding, and more, with an eye to facilitating a strong attachment.

“Unleashing the Mom Within”

A 7-year-old girl helps this author discover her maternal side.

A family during their transition after adoption

“Watching Our Daughter Bloom”

Our conception came via e-mail and our pregnancy required a passport, but we still witnessed the miracle of life as our daughter bloomed before our eyes.

Is your adopted child ready for sleep away camp?

Can My Child Handle Sleep Away Camp?

Parents wonder if preteens will experience separation anxiety at sleep away camp. Learn how to tell if yours is ready, and then ease the transition.

How to help your adopted child relax her drive for perfection.

When Kids Worry About Being Perfect

We want our children to do well—but we also want them to enjoy being kids. How do we help them strike a balance?

A new parent wondering when she'll experience "parenthood"

Is This Really Parenthood?

Your new baby is home and things are just great...right?

Building your adoptive family support network.

Getting the Emotional Support You Want and Need

Open communication can help create positive relationships with family and friends.

Signing a contract for birth mother expenses

Birth Mother Expenses: What You Need to Know

If a prospective birth mother decides not place her baby with us for adoption, can we get back the money we paid for her living expenses during the pregnancy?

Ask AF: When a Partner Is Against a Second Adoption

"My child wants a sibling, and I'd like to adopt again, but my partner is against it (and has not been an very involved parent). What do I do?"

What to consider when deciding independent vs agency adoption.

How Do I Find My Domestic Adoption Team?

Tips from an adoption lawyer on deciding between independent and agency adoption, and on hiring the right professionals.

Our legal expert explains birth father rights in domestic adoption.

Birth Fathers’ Legal Rights in Adoption

Our legal expert explains birth father rights for alleged and presumed fathers, and what prospective adoptive parents need to consider.

How to help kids get over fear of parents death.

Dealing with Adoptee Fears of Loss

Do adoptees who've already experienced the loss of birth parents worry more than other kids about their parents dying?

Register now for a Transracial Adoption Webinar

View the Transracial Adoption Webinar Replay

View the replay of a webinar with Beth Hall, co-author of Inside Transracial Adoption, to learn what parents need to know about talking to kids about race and standing up against racism.