Adoption Articles Posted

Two adoption articles have been posted at our forums. Please share the link with those who might be interested. Waiting To Adopt Open Adoption, Semi-Open Adoption And Closed Adoption © 2011 Forever Parents Share Tags: Adoption Forums, adoption musings, adoption options, choosing adoption, parents of adopted children Related posts Adoption

National Adoption Day 2008

National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 129,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. For the last eight years, National Adoption Day has made the dreams of thousands of children come true by working with courts, judges, attorneys, adoption professionals, child welfare agencies and advocates to finalize adoptions and find permanent, loving homes for...

Looking For A Few Adoption Articles

*UPDATE* The forum has just been created and I’m starting to add articles to it. The link is Adoption Articles. You don’t have to be a forum member to contribute an article. The details are in this post. Our adoption forums have been around since 2002, but because we’ve always been private it ranks quite low in the search engines (as opposed to this blog-which ranks quite high) and people have a hard time...

Ladies Lunch

My daughters & I recently went out to lunch with my aunt Mary (my mothers sister, with Shawna on the right) and my cousin Maryann (my mothers first cousin, with Jacqueline on the left) to our favorite Chinese buffet. I had to share this picture because I love how everybody looks so happy. Share Tags: Older Child Adoption, parents of adopted...

Choosing Your Child’s Name After Adoption

At our adoption forum, I asked members who adopted an infant, how much input their child’s birth mother had in choosing the child’s first name. Here’s what they had to say; 1. She had picked out “a name. We chose a name that starts with T (we made it up). She really like that, too, and the fact that it “goes with” her son’s name. 2. We met with our girls’ birth mom a week...