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In my dreams, I am back in Korea, or trying to go back. There is always the feeling of chasing something lost and the relief of finding it.

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 …

BBC News Indonesia menelusuri berbagai kota di Indonesia dan di Belanda, untuk mengurai skandal adopsi ilegal yang melibatkan lebih dari 3.000 anak Indonesia ke Belanda di masa lalu dalam seri siniar terbaru.

Testimonials from birth mothers and birthparents who selected adoption after facing an unplanned pregnancy

It can sometimes be challenging to choose an attitude of gratitude when you are on the path of adoptive parenting.  Adoption inherently involves loss and grief, and the wait to bring your child home can seem unbearable.  How can we focus on giving thanks as we go through this stressful process? Con

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

Low cost international adoption - is it possible? What you need to keep in mind is that even a low cost adoption that takes place overseas is going to cost at least $12,000 when you consider all costs.

In the name of anti-racism, Bethany is willing to throw away a huge victory. Black children will bear the brunt of this decision.

The Three Key Benefits of Transracial Adoption

Adoption Choices of Kansas, we celebrate the benefits of transracial adoption and support those who decide to embark on this moving journey.

Concerns: INTRODUCTION • Risks for the children include development of: • Psychosocial • Emotional • Cultural • Data/ Research from Transracial Adoptees in the Media: 1986-1996 • (Print-media-reported interviews with adult transracial adoptees) • Results: • Problems with

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Adopting a child from a different race will undoubtedly bring a unique set of challenges. However, having an open mind will transform these challenges into joyo

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 […]

I grew up in a very religious home. We never missed a church service. I taught Sunday school. I briefly considered going into ministry work as a career. Then I got pregnant my freshman year of coll…

By Christy Crowe Hughes   THE CONCEPT OF adoption is very old—it is part of our earliest Judeo-Christian myths (Moses for example). Although it is an essential social mechanism for taking care…

After giving birth, the mother and child needs to bond before separating them. Here's 7 huge benefits of an undisturbed first hour after birth.

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A new brain imaging study shows that infants as young as three months are already enlisting the hippocampus to recognize and learn patterns.

Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.

Though most adoptions go well, histories of institutionalization of adopted children, as well as unrealistic expectations by adoptive parents, can make bonding difficult.

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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

Stolen children, sealed records, unwed mothers, orphan trains, foreign adoptions, good intentions, bad intentions, the fate of detained…

Finding characters and story lines that reflect the complexities of growing up in white families is almost impossible.