Dear Adoption, I Am Finally Ready to Face You – The Real You, The Darker You
Dear Adoption, I Am Finally Ready to Face You – The Real You, The Darker You You are not exactly honest all the time. You are not who you say you are. Your meaning changes depending on who defines …
Adult Adoptees’ Perspective on Interracial Adoption - Nightlight
The Debate on Interracial Adoption: Since the 1970s, there have been debates in America on whether children of one race should be adopted by parents of another. One camp argues that children adopted interracially lose their sense of identity and culture, while the other claims that regardless of rac
Adoptees Press States for Access to Original Birth Certificates - Stateline
Peggy Klappenberger of Crownsville, Maryland, has a little game she plays with her two teenage sons. Every time she drives by the hospital where they were born, she points to the window of the room where their birth took place. She makes a point of telling them, over and over, that they are seeing the […]
The Dark Side of Adoptions: Why Parents and Kids Don't Bond
Though most adoptions go well, histories of institutionalization of adopted children, as well as unrealistic expectations by adoptive parents, can make bonding difficult.
But I adopted my child at birth. What do you mean trauma?
BY: ALEX STAVROS, President and CEO, Calo Family of Programs It is not uncommon for adoptive parents to come to us feeling out of options for their difficult child and overwhelmed about what could have created all of these DSM diagnoses and intense feelings and behaviors. Especially if the child wa