March 02, 2018

Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week

Hi friends…happy Friday!

How are you doing?

However your week is ending, the weekend is here for you. And so are we! We’ve scoured the web for the most fascinating adoption and parenting reads of this week, and this week’s roundup is something special. A few multi-part in-depth series dive deep into the adoption world, and we hear from parents who open up and share their adoption experiences with honesty and power.

Enjoy, and see you Monday! <3

First up, a two-part series on the adoption condition. The first part examines why we constantly refer to and internalize adoptees as “children,” and their status as invisible minorities, and part two focuses on adoption insults and the American family.

Another series! Loving this three-part series featuring a white sibling’s perspective on her adopted sister, who is part Caucasian, part African American, and part Latina. She observed her white parents’ experience raising a child of another race, and shares valuable perspectives we can all learn from. You can find part one, two, and three here.

This mother shares a few tender secrets no one tells you before you adopt.

This piece, penned by an adoptive mother, makes a powerful statement: open adoption only means there are more people to love your child.

Such a fabulous resource — these are excellent Facebook groups that offer support to adult adoptees.

Here are 5 things to know about the cost of adoption. 

The Georgia Senate passed a bill that would allow organizations to refuse LGBTQ adoptions based on religious beliefs.

What happens when you feel angry at your child’s birth parent? “As foster and adoptive parents, we will always be faced with the tough stories of our child’s past. It’s ok to feel hurt if your child was hurt. It is ok to feel sad if someone made your child feel sad. It is ok to feel anger toward the person who hurt your child. It is ok to feel rage, disgust and bitterness. Your child will feel those feelings too. When you do experience those emotions, commit to not staying there.”