Words have the power to shape the way we feel about things.  The words we choose when we talk about adoption affect us all, whether we are adoptive parents, birthparents, adopted children, or ...

While my friends were reading the newspapers and glowing as they saw their children’s names listed on the school honor rolls, I was hoping that my daughter’s name wasn’t listed ...

While rewarding for children and families, inter-country adoption also has its challenges. For the adoptive family, each country has its own set of eligibility requirements, timelines, policies ...

After deciding to pursue domestic adoption as the way to build a family, adoptive parents will confront the question of whether they should try to locate their child through an adoption agency, or ...

Foster Care Adoption Quick Facts: • Foster care adoption is the adoption of a child from the U.S. foster care system who is legally available for adoption and whose birthparents’ ...

Time makes change. People, relationships, technology, and laws all change with the passing of time. During the 23 years that I have been practicing adoption law, I have been witness to multiple ...

At age 16, after 12 years in foster care and with her 18th birthday nearing, Amanda was asked by a judge, “What do you want?”  Never having been asked that question before, ...

Caught up in the considerable effort it takes to find a child to adopt, many adoptive parents who choose to adopt toddlers and older children forget that one day a child will actually come to live ...

New adoptive parents love nothing more than telling their adoption stories,” and people considering adopting never get tired of listening to them.  These stories generally begin with a ...

For many years I have been saying that I feel it is the responsibility of the adoptive family to care take their child’s adoption until she/he is able to care take it for her/himself. What ...