April 13, 2015

Adoption News Roundup

Here’s a look at some of the adoption news that’s caught our eye across the web this week. Lots of dynamic discussion and unique stories from captivating individuals making giant contributions to this world.

How has open adoption changed over the years? At one point, closed adoptions were the norm, and now it’s hard to conceive that could ever be the dominant process. Adoptive Families investigates.

Sweden has a pretty fabulous paternity leave policy for new fathers — said to be the most generous in the world. So how does that affect these new dads, and what could other countries gain from similar policies?

So apparently, “lost” first languages don’t stay that lost at all. A new study “challenges the existing understanding that exposure to a language in the first year of a child’s life can be “erased” if he or she is moved to a different linguistic environment.”

This photo-documentary of an adoption birth story will melt your heart.

In love with this list of over 130 adoption books for children! What an incredible, and inspirational, library!

Have you ever experienced a stranger’s inappropriate reaction to your child? Like, maybe touching their hair (with pizza-greased hands) without your permission? Ugh.

Ever wondered how to irritate a birth mother? If not, this insightful birth mother shares all about what not to say. Hint: don’t tell them “you could never do that.”

Best status we read all week, from the inimitable Portrait of an Adoption:

Daughter: “Is it okay to look up science terms on the Internet?”
Me: “Of course.”
Daughter: “Can I look up mating?”
Me: “Um, no.”
Daughter: “Why not?”
Me: “Because although there will be some results that are scientific, there will also be some that I don’t want you to see.”
Daughter, widening her eyes and dropping voice to whisper, “Are there . . . inappropriate things on the Internet?”
‪#‎innocence‬

An open letter to the mother “who chose me me to adopt her baby with down syndrome.”