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Painful Reality, Hurtful Comments

Family Adoption Stories, Media, Bonding & Attachment

Painful reality: Hurtful comments When my husband and I became first-time parents in 1991 of our then five-month-old Guatemalan-born daughter, I felt ...

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A Different World - Establishing a Link to Your Child's Heritage

Adoption Process, Culture and Pride

An increasing number of parents are adopting children of a different race or nationality and learning first to establish an atmosphere in their home t...

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Packing for Travel to Adopt Your Child

How To Adopt, Travel and Birthcountry Tours

Packing for travel to a foreign country is a very personal thing, but long-time "veteran" travelers usually agree on the following: Generally speaking...

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Cleft Bottles Save Lives

Cleft lip or palate   Special Needs Adoption, Orphan and Family Aid

It’s such a little thing. A $3.00 special bottle for infants who are born with cleft lip/palate. Here in the U.S., and throughout the industrial...

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Helping Your Toddler Adjust

Toddler Adoption, Transitions

Helping a toddler adapt to adoption has its special considerations, especially when the adoption requires foreign travel and the child does not speak ...

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Toddler Adoption: More than You May Expect

Toddler Adoption, Transitions

Naively self-confident, my husband and I adopted a young child who had experienced severe neglect and many disruptions in his first year-and-a-half of...

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A Child's Guide to Adoption

Media, Adoption Process

How is a family created? Most people think that a family is made when a couple gives birth to children. But families can happen in many ways. In the t...

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Adopting Our Daughter with Cleft Palate

Cleft lip or palate   Russia   Special Needs Adoption, Family Adoption Stories

When love takes you in everything changes. A miracle starts with the beat of a heart. When love takes you home and says you belong here. The lonelines...

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Enhancing Attachment & Bonding with Your Child

Cleft lip or palate   Russia   Family Adoption Stories, Adoption Process

When love takes you in everything changes. A miracle starts with the beat of a heart. When love takes you home and says you belong here. The lonelines...

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The time to start your child's lifebook is now...

Media, Post-Adoption

When I was two years old, my parents made the life-changing decision to move to South Korea as missionaries. Initially, my father wanted to build chur...

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