A Birthfather’s Story

Adoption right choice: by Brennan Purtzer
Imagine my son’s delivery room. He has just been born, and our family is huddled together with the love and warmth and security that only a mother and father can provide.
Too bad it didn’t happen this way.
I wasn’t there. I couldn’t be there. I chose to work in an Alaskan [...]

Foster Care Video from the Dave Thomas Foundation

The Dave Thomas Foundation does wonderful work in raising awareness of the need for families for children in foster care.
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Why You Should Hold Your Baby

“If You Hold That Baby All The Time…”
by Pam Leo
“The single most important child rearing practice to be adopted for the development of emotional and social healthy infants and children is to carry the newborn/infant on the body of the mother/caretaker all day long…” - James Prescott, Ph.D.
Every mother who has ever had a baby [...]

Adoption Poems

These would be a great addition to an adoption lifebook. You can also print one out in a nice font, frame it and hang it near your front door.  
~ Our Family Tree ~
We’ve added to our family tree
A stronger one to make
A child from another plant
Has become our new namesake.
Just as a limb is grafted
From one tree [...]

Small Body, Big Spirit

:: Small Body, Big Spirit ::
Mother Nature doesn’t aim for mediocre. She imbues every child with HUGE creative potential.
Children are born *knowing* they’re supposed to be BIG — innately powerful, free, and continuously expanding to new horizons.
Today, no matter how physically small your child may be, notice and appreciate his or her BIGness in spirit. [...]

Adopting A Child With Down Syndrome

I really loved this article about adopting a child with down syndrome. My older two children came to us with needs that typical children don’t usually have and I appreciate when I read about families who focus on the JOY that these kids brought into their lives.
When a family adopts a child with [...]

Grandparents And Adoption

If your son or daughter adopts a child, do you relate to that child the same as you would to a biological grandchild? Yes, you would, according to new research conducted at Haifa School of Social Work.
This research is unique in the field in that it evaluated adoptive relationships from the viewpoint of grandparents; [...]

Adoption Lifebook Supplies

If you’re looking for supplies to create a one of a kind lifebook for your child, please take a look at the Lifebook Page in our Adoption Shop.
You’ll find products such as the Adopting Me personalization kit which includes 18 pages designed to fit the needs of all families, whether adopting internationally or domestically or [...]

10 Quirky Things About Myself

Kerri at Kerri’s Journey To Mommyhood posted 10 quirky things about herself and invited her readers to do the same….so I did.
1: I must sleep with socks on. Even when it’s hot.
2: The waistband of whatever I’m wearing has to lay in just the right spot or I have to fix it until [...]

Reality Of The Hurt Adoptee

A local magazine, Family Times, interviewed me in last September about older child adoption. One of the many issues I spoke about was when people tell my children that they “have a new life now”.
I disagree.
It’s still the same life, just a new chapter in it.
What happened in their earlier years are part of who [...]