August 5, 2011
Photo Friday: Graysanne!
This week, Tracy, Jason and big brother Hugh finalized their adoption with Graysanne — how cute is she in that tulle dress? But because [...]
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August 3, 2011
Changing the foster care industry: Foste ...
No system is perfect. While the foster care system has goodness in its core, and actively works to give children a home, there's no doubt th [...]
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August 2, 2011
Adoption: It Should Be A Choice
Recently it's come out that between 1950 and 1970 (with a few cases still occurring in the 1980s), that at least 150,000 Australian woman we [...]
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July 29, 2011
Photo Friday!
One of the best parts of our job as adoption coordinators is getting to watch the children we place grow up through letters and pictures sen [...]
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July 27, 2011
Keep Your Eyes Open, and Your Heart on t ...
I know that "Law and Order: SVU" is not a verbatim depiction of reality, but they do cull their plot lines from real cases — a fact which [...]
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July 18, 2011
“Our Baby”
The relationship between adoptive family and birth mother is delicate to say the least. Of course, it is different for everyone, but there a [...]
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July 15, 2011
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
The headline makes you believe you are about to read a moving story of an adopted child reunited with her biological mother 40 years after b [...]
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July 12, 2011
She wants to do what?
The verdict in the Casey Anthony trial was heard around the world. What came as an aftershock to some of us in the adoption world was the ne [...]
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June 24, 2011
How much is too much?
I am just going to come out and say it. You can have a successful placement without obtaining an encyclopedia of medical records and/or talk [...]
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June 17, 2011
Put That Hat In
I recently learned, via Facebook of course, that a couple I know just received a referral for an 8 month old boy from South Korea. Like many [...]
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