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Coming home with your newly adopted child is the most exciting time for adoptive families. However, ...
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My wife and I decided to adopt in 2011. After weighing many options, including domestic adoption, we...
Coming home with your newly adopted child is the most exciting time for adoptive families. However, there are a few things that adoptive families may not think about when preparing to bring their child home. Our international team has composed a list of topics that are vital to m...
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My wife and I decided to adopt in 2011. After weighing many options, including domestic adoption, we found the Colombian Heritage program at Spence-Chapin. My wife is half Colombian and half Portuguese and has always associated more with her Colombian culture and traditions. In 2...
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When I first learned that there were many children with Down Syndrome waiting to be adopted, I felt uncertain and thought, "there's no way we could do that." We didn't even know anyone with a child with DS. But I couldn't stay off of the advocacy pages, my heart was drawn. ...
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The international adoption process has changed dramatically within the last 6-8 years. The wait times to adopt internationally have grown, and there no longer are countries that are “easy” or a quick processes. Adoption is one of the most significant decisions a famil...
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Our path towards our daughter in Poland held several roadblocks and detours, but was well worth the journey that brought us together as a family. Our adoption began in August 2016, when we fell in love with a precious girl on the waiting children list. We had always wa...
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Meet Granny Lizzy “The bonding and attachment that I have with my children motivates me to continue with the Granny Program. When the children I care for told me I should not go on vacation leave because they miss me, this touched my heart. It also gives me strength to wake...
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A beautiful, mountainous country by the Black Sea in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria is rich in culture and tradition. Bulgaria is party to the Hague Convention on International Adoption and an increasing number of Bulgarian children are being placed through international adoption each ...
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We both were disabled by polio, a disease that most Westerners believe no longer exists. But I was adopted by Americans. Returning to China 10 years later showed how sharply our destinies had diverged. According to my caretakers at the orphanage, Chunchun arrived a few...
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Misty Lucas, MAA’s Illinois Executive Director and Colombia Program Director, graciously shares with us her journey from adoption professional, to host family, to adoptive Mom. What lead you to decide to host a child from Colombia? My husband and I have always had a pa...
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Read about Jennifer and Ryan’s journey growing their family through international adoption from South Africa in Part I of this story. About six months after bringing home Kurhula from South Africa, we knew that we needed to adopt again. It was clear that Kurhula missed bein...
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