November 03, 2015

Adoption News Roundup

It’s National Adoption Month! And we will definitely be featuring more of that here later. In the meantime, here are some of the stories from our fellow adoption community that we’ve found particularly interesting this week…

27 breathtaking photos of adoptive families uniting. What a perfect collection of images. Happy-making and tear-inducing.

Concerned about your child’s health? What do you know about their sugar intake?

How does China’s changing of the one-child policy impact adoptive parents? Or the birth parents who had to place babies for adoption that they may have otherwise kept? This letter of frustration and gratitude says it all.

The best children’s books of 2015…ones that we’ll definitely be adding to our list!

Some very important facts regarding National Adoption Month 2015. “More than 400,000 children lived in foster care across the U.S. in 2015, and over 100,000 of those children were waiting for an adoptive home, according to the Obama administration. More than 23,000 youth aged out of the foster care system last year without having found their ‘forever families,’ a term that indicates foster youth do not have to move again.”

What happens when sad looks mad? “A child, who has lived for an extended period of time absent of the love and care of a family, generally did not have a caring adult in their life that helped them to identify and express their feelings. Even if a child from a hard place did have the ability to name their feelings, the adults in their lives generally did not have time to listen and validate the child’s feelings.  Feelings became confusing and scary things that the child developed mechanisms to avoid.  One of these coping mechanisms is to turn sad into mad.”

Are we as a society wronging Native American children?

Adoption.com asked birth mothers why they love adoption. This special video is the result.

The brilliance of how Kristen Howerton’s first grader explained the way babies are born. Drawings included.