November 25, 2017

Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week

Happy Friday!

How was your Thanksgiving? Are you still stuffed? We hope so. What a lovely time of year…however you celebrated, we hope you were nourished physically and emotionally, and are heading into the holiday season ready for action.

As always, we’re here today sharing some of our favorite pieces of the week. Enjoy!

12 myths about birthmothers. True, and important.

Why you should teach your children about adoption before releasing them on the playground.

How to adopt a waiting child from the US foster care system.

The New York Times calls to “restart the adoption movement.”

The moments that changed the meaning of adoption in the US. “In the U.S., the first formal adoption law — which came out of Massachusetts in 1851 — was a culmination of a century or more of shifting attitudes toward kids, a recognition in law of the idea that the best interest of the child must be the central consideration when placing children with families — that parents must be deemed “fit and proper,” according to its language.”

Adopting never gets easier…but it does get sweeter. “Adopting again after four years of being just a family and not a “waiting family” meant starting over with the exhausting newborn phase. It meant a homestudy process that involved fingerprinting, background checks, home visits, interviews, and filling out stacks and stacks of paperwork. It meant creating a profile book. What it really meant was putting our hearts on the proverbial line.”

After 39 years, this woman’s biological parents adopted her back.

This little girl joined a family of superheroes when she was adopted!

This beautiful story proves you’re never too old to find a family.