Over a dozen families sued Tuesday to challenge the new Arkansas law that bans couples living together from adoption or becoming foster parents.
The Arkansas chapter of the ACLU filed the lawsuit in Pulaski County to attempt to overturn Act 1, which was approved last month.
To read more…ACLU of Arkansas sues over adoption restrictions.

I admit that I don’t know much about open adoption because we have two closed adoptions. Our adoptions are closed. They are international adoptions. We are okay with that.
Do we talk to AJ about his birth mother? No. He can’t handle it yet. I wish he could but he can’t. We talk to him, instead about Russia. About the orphanage. About the country he came from, not about “where” he came from.
I wish I could because she is part of me too. No matter where my child is from his birth parents are a part of him and we need …read more

One of my favorite bloggers wrote a heartfelt post just under two years ago on how thankful she is for her beautiful and spirited daughter whom she relinquished for adoption at birth.
Please read her elegant words.

I met Michelle last year via the internet. I entered Bloggy Giveaway and won a beautiful white baby blanket with mint green stars. At the time we were in adoption limbo…between Guatemala and domestic so when she heard that baby Gus had the blanket with him as his transition blanket I think she cried.
If you put 5 families,formed by adoption in a room, you would hear 5 very unique adoption stories. If you were to ask those 5 families what the relationship with their child’s birthmother is, you would hear 5 unique relationships.
In my family’s case, in 2005 our lives …read more

Today’s Guest Post comes from Dawn Friedman of This Woman’s Work. Dawn is the mother of two; Madison and Noah. She is also an accomplished writer for several national publications including Yoga Journal, Disney’s Family.com, Utne, Wondertime, Brain Child and Salon. She is currently working on a book about her daughter’s adoption (you’ll see why after you read this).
I could subtitle this: I Have Screwed Up and Now I Must Fix It
Today Madison had ballet class. She was so excited. The night before she danced around and clapped her hands saying, “Tomorrow is ballet!” She picked out her ballet shirt …read more

Haley’s Story
by Kay Green
A phone call Sunday, March 5, 2000 was the end of 7 years of waiting and the
start of a new beginning in our lives. The call was telling us that our new
child’s birth mother’s water broke and she was in the hospital and we should
come to Nebraska.
Let me start at the beginning. I am Kay. We live in rural Oregon. I am a 40
year old mother of 3 wonderful homegrown children, Melissa 18, Jordan 15,
Allison 13. I have been married to my best friend Russell for 21 years. For
the last 7 years I have known and prayed …read more

My dear friend Michelle is proud to announce her second little one. And, you have to read the story behind it and about the hospital wristbands.

When it comes to teen pregnancy there are mistakes made by smart teens, accidents that happen because, well, accidents happen, and then there are girls who want to get pregnant.

The news this week is out of Gloucester, Massachusets where there are 17 expecting teen girls, all of them 16 and under. Half of them confessed to the principal that they had made a pregnancy pact and were going to raise the babies together.

Lynn Paddock, charged with murder in 2006, was on trial lastweek for the murder of her 4-year-old son Sean. She wrapped him in blankets at night to keep in him bed and suffocated him.

Ah yes, hot topic still…and probably always will be. In the United States 140,000 children are adopted through agencies and 20,000 are adopted by parents of a different race. However, black children are less likely to be adopted into a family of another race and the laws are not helping.
When the Donaldson Adoption Institutes’s report on transracial adoption came out recently it state that non-black families should not be given first choice to adopt…that same race families should.