Adoption Interviews #2

Here are the second two in our series of interviews with adoptive and waiting parents that I did through e-mail and on our adoption forum. In an effort to show the many paths adoption can take, I’ll try and choose two that pursued or are pursuing adoption in different ways. If you’re interested in participating (the more the merrier), please e-mail me or leave a comment. To read the rest of the series. please...

Adoption Poems

Here’s a few adoption poems that would be great framed and hung in your child’s room or in their adoption lifebook. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My child, I carried you in my heart before you were even born And dared to dream that you were real.My child, I carried your picture with me since the day I received it, And dared to love a child I was yet to meet. My child, I carried you in my arms at last, and gazed in...

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Last year, my 10 year old daughter and I had an interesting conversation. It started with my husband and I talking with her about how she tries to manipulate & control people. We were basically talking with her about how people want to be treated and that manipulating & controlling people, and situations is not a way to gain trust. So we asked her why she thinks she does it. She thought for a moment and said “I...

Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder

My husband, our son ‘C’ and our friends go to Daytona every year for the Rolex race. The friends they go with are my childrens former foster brother (who got adopted soon after them) and his father. ‘C’ always enjoy himself while he’s there. It’s when he comes back that there’s a problem. The day after we go anywhere, he’s usually very argumentative, short tempered and does a...

Birthmothers picnic

By Nora Muchanic Philadelphia June 3, 2007 An unusual picnic was held today in Montgomery County. Adoptive parents, children and their birth mothers got together for a kind of an extended family get together. “Every single time I see him I know my choice was right. He has a wonderful family, he’s loved by everyone.” That’s 20-year-old Shannon Abrameck talking about 2 and a half year old Aaron, the...

Our Adoption Story: Part Four

Our placement started July 2, 2003. This was a very big step for all of us. It was during two previous placement that they were returned back to foster care by the two familes that originally had wanted to adopt them. I knew that ‘C’ & ‘S’ were hesitant and scared when our placement started and they had a very right to be. Here we were, the third couple telling them that we were going to be their...

Real Parents

Ed Brayton has written a great post on his blog about parents who’ve adopted, not being considered “real” parents.He says “The first rule of parenting is this: biology is irrelevant; only relationships matter. This attitude is an insult to the millions of adoptive parents and step parents who have forged real parental relationships with their children without any biological connection...

Couple Uses Billboard To Adopt

Tom and Claire Halverson wanted to adopt a child but after trying unsuccessfully for three years to find a birth mother, they got creative: putting up billboards on the side of the road. The Halversons, of LaPorte, have posted nearly 90 signs across Iowa and Minnesota in the past few weeks. Their handmade, 3-foot-by-4-foot signs direct people to their Web site, http://www.tomhalverson.com/. And it seems to have worked: A...