August 03, 2018

Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week

Happy Friday!

We’ve got all sorts of stories for you this week, including TWO involving 23andMe and mystery adoptions. How crazy is that? We also have some very important pieces about adoption benefits in the workplace, plus an interesting opinion piece which ponders the question: could allowing agencies to assert religious freedom lead to an increase in adoption?

Have a beautiful weekend, dear friends. Thank you for being part of our community!

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Love this couple that adopted SIX foster siblings!

This gay man offers a compassionate and thoughtful explanation for why he believes religious agencies should be able to choose to whom they adopt. “Private adoption agencies have First Amendment rights, and their freedom of conscience should be respected, even when their beliefs are politically incorrect or downright discriminatory. Allowing a small number of religious agencies to operate within their belief system doesn’t restrict the ability of gay Americans to adopt, because there are LGBT-friendly agencies all across the country, and there’s no shortage of kids looking for new families.”

A beautiful story about one woman’s choice to have a biological child as an adoptee. Throughout the pieces she weaves in her multi-layered and emotional reunion story with her birth mother.

What I wished I knew about adoption before I placed my baby.

What are employer adoption benefits, and why should you care?

A 23andMe test led to a sweet adoption reunion — 60 years later!

Thousands of kids age out of the foster care system every year. What does this mean?

Ready for this tearjerker? This man with leukemia met his mother 45 years after she placed him for adoption.

Is this going to be a trend? Here’s a wild and crazy case also involving 23andMe and adoption.

Have you seen the movie “Three Identical Strangers” about a set of triplets that were separated and adopted at birth? It’s absolutely fascinating.