Adoption Support at Forever Parents

When Your Partner is Reluctant To Adopt

By Jill SmoloweIt had been a long haul to convince my husband to start a family. When biology failed us, he felt the subject of children was closed. By then past 50, Joe was not interested in raising a child whom he inelegantly described as “someone else’s kid.” That was before we went to China [...]

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 [...]

Making the Decision to Adopt

What was it that brought you to adoption? What made you decide to adopt? We asked some of the members of the Forever Parents adoption forum and here’s what they had to say. Feel free to answer in a comment here. We’d love to know what our visitors think.
** Adoption was not something [...]

Adoption Squidoo Lens

I’ve just created a brand new squidoo lens on adoption. It’s not completed yet and I’ll be working on it this week.
I already have an established lens on unschooling that is steadily climbing the ranks.
What’s a squidoo lens you ask?

They’re single webpages designed to be a starting point for someone who is interested in [...]

Adoption Myths

According to Six Common Adoption Myths Dispelled, we should “become educated about adoption and it will help you be equipped to separate adoption facts from fiction”. They list the six myths as;
1. There are no healthy infants available for adoption in the U.S.
2. It takes years to complete an adoption.
3. Single people can’t adopt.
4. Birth [...]