March 23, 2018
Adoption and Parenting News Roundup
Happy Friday, friends!
We hope your week was an excellent one. We are quite ready for the weekend and have lined up some excellent reads to provoke thought, insight, and knowledge. Enjoy and share!
May your weekend be marvelous one — we’ll see you next week!
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An excellent resource for fully understanding the cost of adoption.
A great blog post about prepping for a home study.
Kindness reunited this 67 year-old homeless man with his birthmother.
On sleep issues with adopted children, and what it means to experience night grieving.
Are you using your child’s car seat incorrectly?
Some thoughtful advice about hugging your children when they’re acting their worst.
How are your child’s special needs affecting you? “We know that children who have come from difficult places experience trauma, but what about you and I as parents? How do we handle the secondary trauma we experience as a result of the day in and day out battle of parenting them?”
Choosing adoption for your child is an incredibly personal choice, and one that unfortunately garners lots of stereotypes and criticism. Here are five reasons a woman may choose adoption for her child. “Given the choice, most women would love to be a parent. Nothing would make them happier than sharing their love with a child. But again, that’s not always possible. Whether it be because they’re struggling financially or not in a stable relationship, they may decide that this isn’t the right time to bring a child into their life.”
Why Hollywood gets adoption so wrong. “Through villainizing and trivializing biological parents, or through erasing them from the narrative altogether, such as in Anne of Green Gables, the film industry has a reputation for missing the mark on the importance of biology to adoptees. The no-strings-attached orphan is perhaps more palatable for the average viewer, despite being such an inaccurate portrayal of adoption.”