November is National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month and in honor of that I will be bringing you the best of adoption…the best of the best blogs, the best agencies, the best resources. I will also be bringing you the best articles on adoption, the best videos, and even the best images.
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I like reading about heart touching stories on adoption
I agree with Huguette.
Adoption is a wonderful thing. I was lucky to be blessed with 2 children. I know many people though that have also been blessed with children by adoption.
How about resources for families that have or will adopt transracially?
I can’t find information about how an expat can start the adoption process while living abroad.
Seems to me that adoption is hard work – lots of red tape and confusing paperwork – and expensive! I’d like to see some kind of encouragement that it’s not as hard as it seems – or at least that there’s help out there – both with all the legal stuff and the financial!
How about some of the more obscure laws in the different countries for adopting?
I am interested in hearing about the steps/requirements for becoming a foster parent and more info about adopting older children currently in the foster care system. Thanks!
Maybe talk about open versus closed.
How do biological kids do? Maybe some insight from them themselves (ie websites). Costs? Special needs adoptions? Really would like to see websites from kids/adults that were adopted their thoughts on adopted families, searches from birthparents…
How to help your other children understand what is happening.
I’d like to know if there are studies on grown (or near-grown) children of open adoption.
I know open adoption is a relatively new thing, but I am looking to see how it fares for people who have grown up in it.
You guys are AWESOME! These are great ideas!
I’m curious about adoptive parents rights before the birth.
My daughter is expressing interest in adoption and I know nothing so a beginner’s guide of some sort would be great.
One of my best friends has adopted 2 children. She is a foster mother and each child she took home from the hospital. It took about 6 years for each adoption because of the red tape. Both of hers were open adoptions. She had 2 children of her own, adopted 2, and at the moment has 3 foster kids.
I have little to no experience with adoption, but have recently met two people that were adopted as children. Both searched and found their birth parents, but one’s experience was wonderful and the other’s was traumatic. I’d be interested in hearing stories both pro and con on this subject.
Im so overwhelmed with all the information, I get all turned around as to how even begin researching – domestic, internation, foster/adopt – it’s all too much! I need some simplicity and some encouragement.
I’d love to know more about the legal rights of adoptive parents before the adoption is finalized.
I have heard that foreign adoptions have gotten harder. Guatemala is one country that has been stessed to me! Thanks, Cindi
Our Son is now 12 but it took Us 10 years of long waiting to get Him. The 10 years of waiting seemed like forever but already He is 12 unbelievable….We have an Open Adoption and would have it no other way…..It is amazing and a true gift He looks just like Us and nothing like His Birth Mother…..God is good but I would like more on Open Adoption and poems and saying for scrapbooks…..not the regular…also We are a local Michigan adoption….and We got Him right from the hospital and it is the only way to go….WOW a MAJOR MIRACLE…
I’d like to see more about open adoption.
I think that you need to have more information about the parents that gave their kids up for adoption.
I am curious if siblings that are seperately adopted (or some are not and are kept by the birth parents) how they connect if at all
I’m a far cry from having kids yet, but I do follow a lot of adoption blogs. I guess I’d be most interested in the differences (legal, cultural, and so on) between domestic and international adoption.
Open adoption, of course, is on my mind…particularly relationships with birthparents as the years go by….
what are the laws in different countries for adoption
Enjoying Blogtoberfest. I’ve been to your site a few times and you always have thoughtful posts.
Adopting older children offers unique challenges.
I know very little about adoption. I do have friends who are in the process of adoption from Africa and have had been told to be ready only to be called back again saying the babies couldn’t be adopted because of positive HIV tests. What do they do with the babies that test positive? I was just wondering.