I saw the scar the first time I changed Natalie's diaper, just an hour after the orphanage director handed her to me in a hotel banquet room in Nanchang, a provincial capital in southeastern China. Despite the high heat and humidity, her caretakers had dressed her in two layers, ...
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When we adopt a child who looks different from us, we generally feel we can handle the stares and loss of privacy that go with the territory. We may find, however, that the frequent questions and comments of strangers and relatives sometimes annoy and worry us. At the heart of ou...
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As the old adage says, "What you don't know can and will hurt you." In the world of international adoption, this may be especially true. For 12 years, The RainbowKids.com Adoption Advocacy Website has advocated for special needs and waiting children by the use of a photolisting, ...
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Part 1: Language and the child adopted from abroad (a 3 part series) Medical experts with a special interest in intercountry adoption (ICA) tell us that in terms of our children's development, around one month's loss is experienced by our children for every three they are ...
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One of the known risks of adopting a child from an orphanage is Reactive Attachment Disorder. Individuals with the most serious level of this personality disorder are unable to give and receive love. They cannot develop the ability to form successful relationships, or accept resp...
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I was at our community pool with my five children when I ran into an old acquaintance I had not seen in a couple of years. My eldest daughter and her little girl were in first grade together, back before our two adopted daughters had made it home from Haiti . We took a few minute...
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Guest commentary by Lillian Thogersen, Adoptive mom of 8 and CEO of WACAP adoption agency Between high-profile celebrity adoptions and significant foreign-policy changes, the topic of international adoption has been much in the news of late. Adoption professionals are grateful fo...
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Our kids are just coming out of the book-eating stage. Where before they were happy to gnaw on the cardboardy corners of the titles on their bookshelf, now they've moved on to running towards their favorite books and bringing them to me, wanting me to read them. I've been a lifel...
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In August, RainbowKids.com asked readers this question: If it were possible, would you choose to meet your child's birth-mother? And if so, what would you say? An incredible 95% of readers emphatically answered YES! to meeting their child's birth-mother. Dozens more went on to l...
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In part 2 of this regular series on African Hair Care, adoptive mom Sherri Gragg teams up with friend Stephanie Fitzgerald to share a variety of tips on hair products. Visit Sherri's Voices of Adoption Profile to read this full series and other articles by Sherri Gragg. It was a...
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