September 02, 2014

Adoption News Roundup

We hope you had a wonderful long weekend! Here are some of the stories that caught our eye over the past week:

Heart of a Birthmom, a devotional guide for birth mothers, is a wonderful gift to pass along to the birth mothers in your life. Of course it’s important that you make sure they’re open to such information—no one wants to feel like they’re being preached to—but it’s a good book to keep on hand for when the occasion arises. We could all use a little guidance.

Adoption.com likens open adoption to a marriage. By their estimation, adoptive families and birth families looking to match have to go through a courting phase, an engagement, the wedding, the first year, and then their own happily ever after. Birth parents and adoptive parents who are part of open adoptions…what do you think?

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Its color is gold, and this mommy blogger is going to be doing a month-long installment on her blog, featuring stories about children with cancer…sharing awareness, bringing important stories to life and giving these children the voice they deserve. This is definitely one to follow and share.

This Adoptive Families discussion board features the stories and woes of single parents who are consistently asked “where is the father?” “Where is the mother?” As if their families could only possibly be complete if two parents were involved. It’s interesting to read their perspectives and will surely be therapeutic for the many individuals who have to deal with this on a daily basis.

Changing an adopted child’s name…is that something you ever thought to do? If so, what motivated you to do it? How did you address that with your child? (Unless of course they weren’t old enough to realize.) Or did you notice any difference in your child when you did change their name?