21 May 2018 0 comments
It takes a dedicated and resourceful parent to adopt a child with special medical needs. A...
20 May 2018 0 comments
Adoption has been on your heart for a while, so you begin investigating the process. Everythin...
It takes a dedicated and resourceful parent to adopt a child with special medical needs. At Spence-Chapin, we guide families in how to make an informed decision about their family’s particular medical openness and offer support and resources before,...
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Adoption has been on your heart for a while, so you begin investigating the process. Everything you find references an ‘adoption home study.’ So what is the big deal with an adoption home study? And why should it be a priority when starting the adopt...
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A few years ago, when I was eleven years old, my family returned to my birthland -- Vietnam -- where I met my birth mother and a great big extended birth family including grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and even an infant half-sister. For one whole year beforehand, I worrie...
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When considering adoption, parents generally take time to consider whether they meet certain qualifications, like age requirements or length of marriage, to adopt from a particular country. For example, to adopt from Ukraine, couples must be married and both must be at least...
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Many families have talked about orphanages as pseudo “baby homes” and have focused on their own child’s young age, perhaps the first year or so, being spent at an orphanage. That background can create the perception that there are young, healthy babies that prim...
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It’s amazing how times have changed since I was a child. Not only technology, advances in medicine and science, and education, but in the definition or understanding of “family.” It’s a good change, I think, because as a society we have become more accepti...
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As a parent of two children adopted from China, I have sometimes felt the burden of providing my kids with experiences that are “equal” to each other. There is probably nowhere that this particular penchant for parental fairness becomes so impossibly out of reach as i...
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Want to prepare yourself and your child as you think about heritage travel. Here are some top recommendations: Heritage Trip Books From Home to Homeland: What Adoptive Families Need to Know Before making a Return Trip to China, Edited by D. Jacobs, I....
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Grace, a former adoptee through Great Wall China Adoption, shares her story about growing up adopted and reflects on how adoption has shaped her into the person she is today. "I sit here with so many thoughts in my head not knowing what to write about, so I'll start off with an i...
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Transitions: Why are they hard, and what can we do? Our children who came to us through adoption have often lived in a world in which uncertainty is the only constant. For them loss and transitions have been stressful, if not traumatic. They have lost their birth parents or have ...
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