October 02, 2015

Adoption News Roundup

Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading this week!

This amazing free, downloadable guide from Adoptive Families features 60+ pages of information regarding adoption and infertility, including a directory of professionals all across the country. The ultimate goal is to help you build the family you want, while giving you as many tools and resources as possible to do so. Keep this one handy!

When you’re an adoptive parent, you are no stranger to difficult questions and challenging conversations with your children. These aren’t bad conversations, but they can be tricky to navigate, depending on how comfortable you or your child are, and what the subject matter is. This great article from adoption.com shares things to consider when broaching these topics with your children, and how you can best prepare for their toughest questions.

“Is Anyone Out There? Finding Support As A Birth Mother.” This comprehensive article not only shares personal stories, but it provides excellent advice for friends, family, and adoptive parents who are looking to better support the birth mother in their lives pre, during, or post-placement.

Why race does matter, especially in adoption.

There are challenges inherent to every kind of parenting, but this particular article may be helpful to parents who have adopted older children.

How self-aware is your child? A strong sense of self-awareness can move mountains when it comes to navigating challenges of identity, and where you fit in in this world. Here are five reasons self-awareness is essential for adoptees.

Openness in adoption should begin long before the match, especially when it comes to protecting the rights of the birth parent. 

A beautiful piece on exploring adoption and identity. “As a trans-racially adopted person I think about my identity a lot; consciously and unconsciously exploring who I am in some way every day. Sometimes this exploration is light and can be fun, sometimes it is deep and can be painful, and sometimes it is somewhere in between. I believe exploring our identity and who we are is healthy and necessary. As an adopted person of color, sometimes I marvel at unique opportunities to explore the pieces and parts known and unknown that make me who I am. Other times, the exploration is simply not something I want to do, it is too painful. Yet, it is powerful to have the space to discover when we want and need to.”