Before first grade, parents need to teach kids how to respond to unwelcome comments about adoption at school.
Let’s Play Adoption
Want to get your young child to open up about adoption? Stop talking and start playing!
Helping Preschoolers Understand Adoption
Through normal, imaginary play, children in the preschool years can conquer their fears, conjure their birth mothers, and learn to understand their stories.
Is Special Needs Adoption Right for Your Family?
Why adopt a child with medical special needs? The answers will surprise you and touch your soul.
Budding Curiosity – Adoption Talks with Preschoolers
AF takes you inside the mind of your preschooler, and offers tips for answering their first questions about adoption and talking about how you became a family.
Poland Adoption Fast Facts
Wondering how to adopt from Poland? Find statistics, prospective parent requirements, and an average budget and timeline.
Adoption Goes to Preschool
Sometimes, a behind-the-scenes talk with the teacher better serves your child than a class presentation.
Ask AF: Talking About Adoption in School
We're moving to a much smaller and less diverse town. I would like to talk to give an adoption talk at her school, but she seems embarrassed by this idea.
What to Expect During Your Adoption Finalization
Adoption can't be finalized until after marathon of post-placement visits and termination of parental rights. Here's what to expect before, during, and after the hearing.
Surprising Post-Adoption Emotions
When you finally bring your child home, yes, you will feel elated. But many new adoptive moms and dads are surprised by the complex emotions that can sit on the outskirts of that joy.
Is Adoption Sad?
We may feel one way or the other, but it's our kids who must decide.
Ask AF: Grandparent Adoption
I adopted my grandson eight years ago, and he has no idea that I'm his grandmother.
Adoption Scrapbooks: A Link to the Past
An adoption scrapbook lets parents and children create a sense of history and of belonging.
“Lessons Learned from a Failed Adoption Match”
When friends asked, I'd always assured them I wasn't sad that I hadn't given birth to my sons. A heartbreaking false start helped me see that I was truly at peace with that fact.
Special Report: Adoption & Teens — Parenting Strategies
Adoptive Families explores common situations you may face while parenting your adopted teen.
Answering Relatives’ Tricky Questions About Adoption
Adoptive parents are used to fielding questions about adoption — and most of us have an arsenal of replies to give the stranger in the checkout lane, but when it's a family member making the rude remark, snappy comebacks don't suffice.
Is It Adoption, or Is It Life?
Five of the country's top adoption therapists tell us what we need to know to support our children.
“What We Wish We Had Known” – Older Child Adoption
A mom and her daughter share lessons learned about older child adoption.
Your Earliest Adoption Conversations
Not sure when — or how — to bring up adoption with your toddler or preschooler? Here's where to begin.
A Meeting of the Open Minds
Two adoptive moms and a birth mother candidly discuss the adoption match, birth siblings, contact agreements, and more.