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Origami Crane

Korea South   Birth Families, Adoptee Articles, Bonding & Attachment

I had been angry all of my life because I was an odd construction of a person: a Korean-looking girl on the outside, a Caucasian-sounding girl on the ...

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Dancing with Ghosts

Birth Families, Adoption Process

At some time in their young lives, every adopted child will realize the losses he or she has incurred to become a happy member of their present family...

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The Right Stuff

Adoption Process, Pre-Adoption

If you're like I was when going through the adoption process, you're pretty sure you can meet all the paperwork qualifications. You're willing to jump...

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What Will She Learn?

Guatemala   Adoption and School

I took my daughter to school again this September and glowed with joy and felt sad at the same time. She is growing into a vibrant and loving kid at s...

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Adopting the LAST Child

Family Adoption Stories, How To Adopt, Adoptee Articles, Adoption Process

One of the most difficult aspects of building our family through adoption has been measuring when to say "when".  At what point should we say, "T...

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Proactive Parenting in Adoptive Families

Birth Families, Adoptee Articles, Bonding & Attachment, Adoption Process

You thought adoption would live up to the myth about being a magical, wonderful, incredible experience. But if that's true, why is your child so angry...

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Loving Jay

Birth Families, Family Adoption Stories, Adoptee Articles, Bonding & Attachment

We had three kids. Two are adopted. Our oldest daughter arrived at age ten, and our son was placed with us as a one-year old with special needs. When ...

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Asian Pre-Teens

Adoptee Articles

Who am I? That's a question that even well-adjusted adults, armed with all our years of comforting routines and soothing platitudes, find ourselves wr...

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The Balance Beam

Birth Families, Family Adoption Stories, Adoptee Articles

FREE CHILD CARE. The hand-painted, arrow-shaped sign, decorated with balloons and glitter, hung outside the Women's Crafts Fair. What a gift! It promi...

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Family Resemblance in Transracial Adoption

Family Adoption Stories, Bonding & Attachment

At our wedding, friends assured my husband and me that we would create good- looking kids. And we believed them. It's that cloning fantasy: that our f...

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