More Gays And Lesbians Becoming Parents

It’s nice to see such a positive article in the midst of such discrimination. I honestly don’t understand what their issue is with gay people adopting. Families come in all shapes and sizes and who’s to say that one is better than another. Gaywired.com According to a study released by the Williams Institute and the Urban Institute, lesbian, gay and bisexual people are becoming parents at a faster rate....

Heart Gallery (Texas)

Heart Gallery Puts A Face On Children Needing Adoption March 26, 2007 04:01 PM EDT It’s called the Heart Gallery, and it features the faces of adoption. But this year, the focus is moving a new direction. “Our focus, really, is a lot on older children right now,” said Chris Van Deusen with Child Protective Services. “It’s much more difficult for older children to get adopted.” And now the...

Parenting Biological And Adopted Children

Debra G. Smith of the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, 1996. Years ago, if you went to an adoption agency seeking to adopt a child after having had a child by birth, you were turned down. It just wasn’t done. It was thought that you shouldn’t mix the two the children would be too different, and the difference would be insurmountable. Professionals advised against it. Of course, the reverse order of...

Lesbian Seeks To Overturn Adoption

Like a lot of lesbian couples, Sara Wheeler and her partner, Missy, decided to start a family together and share the Wheeler as their last name. Sara gave birth to a son through artificial insemination and two years later, they both decided that Missy should adopt the child and legally become his second parent. Their relationship ended and as is in a lot of break ups where a child is involved, Missy sought joint custody...

Transracial Adoption

Transracial or transcultural adoption means placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group. In the United States these terms usually refer to the placement of children of color or children from another country with Caucasian adoptive parents.People choose to adopt transracially or transculturally for a variety of reasons. Fewer young Caucasian children are available...

Paid For Choosing Adoption

Senator Dan Patrick (Texas) wants to pay pregnant women 500 dollars for choosing adoption over abortion. The bill has not been scheduled yet for a hearing in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. I think it’s an interesting idea, but one that would have a lot of kinks to work out. Sen. Patricks proposal calls for giving any woman going to an abortion clinic the $500 option, to be paid no more than 30 days...

Dave Thomas Foundation

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is close to my heart because my own children came to us through a foster care adoption. They help bring awareness to foster care adoption through programs such as “Adoption-Friendly Workplace” and their annual television special ‘A Home For the Holidays’ and From their site: …dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 140,000...

International Adoption

Have Your Heard Of The China Adoption Connection Author: Robert Byrnes The China adoption program is among the most popular of all international adoptions. In 2005, nearly 8,000 kids were adopted from China by citizens of the United States. When looking into international adoptions, some countries may be complicated to work with. However, in the case of China adoptions, they are easy and clear cut. .The majority of the...

Embryo Adoption

Embryo Adoptions Author: Dana Sanders For many couples desperately trying to bear children, infertility is a reality. Usually, a couple with fertility problems attempts many chances at having a biological family—including in vitro fertilizations. Many couples wish to experience the joy of carrying and giving birth to a child, but physically cannot produce a viable embryo. After trying all viable options, many couples give...

Transracial Adoption

Several of our adoption forum members have adopted transracially. When asked to share what advice they would give to those considering adopting transracially, they shared their thoughts and advice. ** That if they had to ‘talk themselves into this’….then they shouldn’t be doing it. ** If they are caucasian themselves, once they adopt a baby of color, their family will forever be categorized as a family...

Breastfeeding When You Adopt

Induced Lactation-Adoptive Breastfeeding by Kay Green I have the wonderful privilege of breastfeeding my adopted daughter Haley. We began this journey when she was 18 hours old. It is a day I will always remember looking into the eyes of this precious angel as her birth mom sat there and watched us. She later told a social worker that it helped her so much to see Haley and I bond at that moment. When we began that day I was...

Adopt-A-(fill in the blank)

How Using Adoption to Catch Attention, Touch Heartstrings and Raise Big Bucks Exploits Children Who Were Adopted and Those Waiting for Permanency People who are involved with adoption issues on a daily basis are becoming increasingly concerned about the negative impact of programs taking an “ADOPT-A-” theme which have proliferated since the Cabbage Patch doll craze of the early 1980′s. People are urged to...