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Adoption is a process that involves a guardian or guardians legally assuming parental responsibility for a child. Regardless of the method of adoption—open, closed, international, embryo, transracial, foster care, or adult—the process is usually long, expensive, and stressful. After the joy and exhilaration when the process is complete and legal, there’s a host of small and large adjustments to navigate that can last for years or an entire lifetime.

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Emotional & Psychological Effects of Adoption on Birth Mother

The psychological effects on a birth parent who places their child for adoption can often be overlooked.

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Developing the Characteristics of Successful Foster or Adoptive Parents

More than any thing, children in foster care need parents who are willing to accept them as they are, and to help them heal so they can reach their potential. As a prospective foster and adoptive parent, you are ready and willing to make a difference in the lives of children in foster care.

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Why Did She Leave Me There?

A young man returns to the Vietnamese orphanage he had spent 25 years trying to forget.

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Adopting a Newborn from the Hospital? What to Expect & How to Prepare for Your First Hospital Adoption Experience

The adoption process is a highly-anticipated and hopeful journey for waiting parents.

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Adoptive Mom Feels Left Out at Son’s Reunion with Birth Mother

It is difficult for us non-adopted people to understand the situation adoptees face.

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My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity from Me for 19 Years

My parents successfully passed me off as a dark-skinned Italian for 19 years of my life.

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Five Practical Ways You Can Bond with Your Newly Adopted Baby

When we adopted our first child, it was a whirlwind experience. We had been waiting fourteen months when we got a phone call saying we had been chosen to adopt a baby girl who was already born.

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When Should We Tell Our Child That He Was Adopted?

Find the right time to discuss this sensitive subject.

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Adoptive Moms: Common Emotions and Coping Skills

Now that the newness of motherhood has worn off, you feel down, and you can’t stop asking yourself why. You didn’t expect to feel anything other than happiness.

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“A Little Girl We Barely Know Is Coming to Live with Us”: How One Writer, Unexpectedly, Became a Father

As we pack up her things—some clothes, diapers, and a few stuffed animals—a realization hits me: A little girl we barely know is coming home to live with us.

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