Check out the video on my YouTube channel HERE! Recently, the National Council for Adoption, also known as NCFA, performed one of the largest surveys of adopting families. In today’s blog, I’ll be sharing some of the highlights found in the survey. If you’d like to...
Check out the video on my YouTube channel HERE! Adopting parents have the right to choose whether or not they want an open or closed adoption. However, openness surrounding adoption can be quite beneficial to all if done well and when it’s in the child’s best...
An important mindset to remember when adopting is that it’s a tremendous leap of faith. Much of the process and what happens even after doing everything right are out of your control. You’ll need to have faith in the professionals and the people you’re working with....
When you are thinking about welcoming a child into your life through adoption, many questions come to mind. Brains are sometimes flooded with doubt and interrogations like, “Am I prepared to be a parent?” or “Do I have all the financial resources to give my child the...
Just like any major life change, adoption comes with many unknowns. It’s fair to want to find answers to these unknowns, but the reality is that uncertainty will be there. Because of that, we can tend to anticipate disaster, which is incredibly unnerving, to say the...
Over the years, I’ve been honored to help countless families expand through adoption. One thing they all have in common is being overwhelmed with the adoption process. When you compile all the costs, legalities, and invasive requirements for adoption, it’s completely...
When performing a simple Google search, you’ll find that there aren’t too many statistics yet about the percentage of failed domestic adoptions. According to my own research, I found that about 75% of domestic adoptions are successful and only about 25% of domestic...
I was adopted at birth from Catholic Charities in Des Moines, Iowa. My birth mother was from a small town in Illinois, and was hiding her pregnancy from her parents- well actually- hiding it from all except a very small circle of sisters and best friends. She called...
When working with families looking to adopt, one of the most common and deeply held fears they have is that they’ll never be matched with expecting parents. The reality is: that’s a valid fear.They might not be matched with expecting parents. But I am a firm...
Many families come to us asking what the education requirements are for adopting. The easy answer to this question is that it depends. Here are the education requirements for the three most common avenues of adoption: Foster care adoption – The training is...