Category: Adoption

Why Do Adoptions Cost Money?

As a nonprofit adoption agency, we do our best to explain why private adoptions cost what they do, while adopting from the State is often much cheaper. Some parents choose to adopt a child from foster care. These children are often older and are in foster care because...

What It Feels Like to Adopt a Child

Families who are considering adoption have so many questions about the adoption process. Most of the logistics–while complex in action–are relatively simple to communicate. One of the more nuanced questions that families face is what does it feel like to...

Adoption Announcement Ideas

We’ve seen so many cute adoption announcements lately, and they’re often incredibly creative. Here are a three of our favorite ideas. Share with us any you’ve seen lately, or if you’ve created your own please let us know on Facebook!

From Infertility to Adoption

Like so many adoptive families, you may have struggled or are currently struggling with infertility. How do you know when it’s time to quit fertility treatments and make the decision to adopt? When will you be ready? The common consensus is that you’ll never “know”...

New Books about Adoption

  In the first half of 2015, we’ve already been gifted with many different books on adoption from many different perspectives. If you’ve been looking for a new take on adoption and family, keep on reading! All links below are affiliate links to Amazon. Books for...

What to Say and What Not to Say to Adoptive Parents

Everyone has been in the uncomfortable position of not understanding someone’s circumstances and saying the exact wrong thing. Talking to a friend who has lost a parent or a coworker who is going through a divorce is difficult when you haven’t encountered these...
The Blended Family

The Blended Family

A family with biological children and adopted children faces a unique set of challenges. Do parents acknowledge the differences in the children and how they came into the family? How do they ensure that all of the children’s individual needs are being met? How do...

Adoption in the Movies

Many of our entertainment choices are escapist; we look for superheroes or geniuses that do things we cannot do and in scenarios that don’t match up with our ordinary lives. In the rest of our TV and movie choices, we love to see ourselves reflected in the screen or...

Adoption and Discipline

There are so many theories on the best ways to discipline children, and adding in the adoption variable can sometimes make that more complex. Children who are adopted through the foster system or who have spent much of their lives in orphanages, especially abroad, can...

Featured Adoption Video: The Peterson Family

We love featuring inspirational videos about families’ adoption journeys. This week we’re featuring the Peterson Family’s adoption story, a family of four children and two parents who are passionate about growing their family through adoption.  ...