June 16, 2017

Adoption and Parenting Reads Of The Week

Hi there,

Welcome to summer! With the heat wave that swept the country this week, it feels like it’s finally here. A perfect time to cozy up with our favorite adoption and parenting reads of the week.

To those of you celebrating, we hope you have a wonderful Father’s Day weekend. Especially to you first-time fathers being honored in your new role! Much love, and we’ll see you next week.

We’re enchanted by the magic of Germany’s outdoor preschools.

How one parent learned a lesson in kindness from their children’s youth sport activities.

15 things Kristen Berry would change from her first year of foster care.

5 lessons for every parent, from an autism dad. We love, “you can’t give up on your child.”

Only 3% of foster care youth graduates from college. Here is one of her stories.

This 41 year-old adopted Korean is being deported after living in the US for 37 years. “Nobody knows how many international adoptees grow up undocumented due to negligence or clerical errors, but given the difficulties adopted children often have, many of them end up in trouble with the law, which can in turn lead to deportation to homelands they do not remember and cultures that are completely foreign to them.”

Your five year-old is already racially biased.

A new adoption work group in Kentucky plans to bring aggressive reforms to the state’s adoption process.

The Arizona Supreme Court has just issued a new ruling that limits the ability of Native American tribes to intercede in adoption cases.