Social Media Ideas for Adoption Awareness

The Power of Love: Celebrities Who Were Adopted and Their Impact

Families come in all different forms, and adoption is one of them. Adoption is an incredibly special thing, and it impacts people from all walks of life, even celebrities and other...

The Truth About Being Chosen: What Adoptive Parents Need to Know

Melissa perched on the edge of her chair, with a cup of hot coffee in her hands. She grabbed her phone and started to eagerly browse her adoption agency‘s website, something that s...

After years of trying, couple finds their forever family through adoption

ST. AMANT- After five years of trying to have children, Rev. Merton Wilcox, an assistant pastor at the Apostolics of Ascension, and his wife received a call about two years ago tha...

Exploring adoption as a single parent: Questions to ask with confidence

There are over 70,000 children waiting for adoption in the foster system every year according to federal data from NCFA and ACF. Yet, many prospective parents assume single-parent...

Positive Effects of Adoption on the Child

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Letter of Recommendation for Adoption: Who to Ask, What to Include, and a Sample

A letter of recommendation for adoption, sometimes called an adoption reference letter, is a signed and dated note from a friend, colleague, or community member who can speak to yo...

Employer Provided Adoption Benefits 101: How to Ask, Word-for-Word

Employer provided adoption benefits are financial and workplace supports offered by a company to employees who are growing the family through adoption. These benefits typically inc...

Adoptee Remembrance Day asks people to pause four minutes for adoptees lost to suicide

Adoptee Remembrance Day is asking people to stop for four minutes on October 30, one minute for each time adoptees are statistically more likely to attempt suicide.

Haitian girl home with U.S. adoptive family as Lifeline promotes streamlined process

Former orphan Grace Pierre Dowey of Haiti wasted no time in greeting her new siblings, first lifting into her arms her 1½-year-old sister Sadie, hugging her two brothers Henry and...

Contact With Birth Parents After Adoption

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Family Doesn’t Support Your Adoption Plan? What to Do

If your family doesn’t support your adoption plan, start by finding out what they’re afraid of. Most opposition comes from love, outdated ideas about adoption, or grief over losing...

Geef nu ook alle geadopteerden zonder vertraging inzicht in hun adoptiedossier

Abortion vs Adoption: Know the Facts Before You Decide

If you’re comparing abortion vs. adoption, you’re facing one of the hardest decisions of your life, and it deserves more than a rushed answer. Abortion, adoption, and parenting are...

ASPCA Calls on the Public to Join the Rescue Effect During Adopt a Shelter Dog Month

The ASPCA's Rescue Effect campaign, supported by Subaru, celebrities and public figures, encourages pet adoption and provides critical support to shelters nationwide

UK’s adoption system crisis: Over 3,000 children trapped in instability with shortfall of families to welcome them

Charities and adoption organisations have seen a 25 per cent drop in the number of potential adopters being approved

Color Walk meant to bring awareness to foster care

More than 200 people registered for Josiah White’s Foster Care I Walk With Fosters Color Walk on Saturday morning at Jackson Morrow Park in Kokomo.

I Placed My Black Son For Adoption After Rape — His Memoir, ‘Stranger In My Own Story,’ Helped Me Reclaim Mine [Op-Ed]

Adoption was not only my decision. It was my inheritance—the outcome of shame and trauma. Survival. Loss of connection to self and truth. Running. Avoiding vulnerability at all cos...

Campaigners call for genetic screening for adopted adults

Laura Brown is one of many adult adoptees all too used to NHS consultations that start with questions about family health history

Raising Money for Adoption: Where to Start?

Once hopeful adoptive parents find out how much adoption costs, their next question is usually the same: where do I even start raising money for adoption? It’s a fair question. Dom...

Milwaukee couple adopts four children after eight years as foster parents

Geadopteerden krijgen (iets) meer zeggenschap over wat er bewaard wordt in hun adoptiedossier

Celebs You Never Knew Were Adopted

Adoption changes the entire trajectory of a child’s world. In so many cases, they’re given a second chance with an adoptive family and a new life. In the best-case scenarios, the a...

Adoption Alert: Bulldog Who Went Viral on Instagram Is Leaving Fleas and Chains in His Past

From going viral for an infestation of fleas to “Indoor dog life? Yes, please!”—Dior is ready to be internet-famous for a new reason: The rescued bulldog is now adoptable through P...

Post Adoption Depression: Symptoms, Causes & How to Cope

Post-adoption depression (PAD), also called Post-Adoption Depression Syndrome (PADS), is a depressive condition that can affect adoptive parents after their child comes home. It sh...