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Forging A Bond With Your Newly Adopted Child

Forging A Bond With Your Newly Adopted Child

You’ve finally done it. You've overcome every obstacle along the way on your path to adopting a child and now you're welcoming them into your home with open arms. While you may have gotten this far, the journey is only just beginning. As a parent, it can be hard to...

Getting Approved to Foster or Adopt

Getting Approved to Foster or Adopt

To become a foster or adoptive parent, a person must fill out an application form. The form asks questions about their character, life skills, and experience. It also asks them to list any relevant education and references. However, there are other steps involved...

Celebrities You Never Knew Were Foster Parents

Celebrities You Never Knew Were Foster Parents

Foster parents play an important role in the lives of children from disadvantaged family backgrounds. While there were more than 200,000 foster care homes in the United States in 2020, the need for caring and adoptive families is pressing. Thankfully, many celebrities...

How to Support your Foster Child Through the Holidays

How to Support your Foster Child Through the Holidays

You can easily overlook why a foster child will have a tough time during the festive season. If the child is in a safe and supportive place, that’s good. All foster children come from different backgrounds, which means they would celebrate the holiday season...

Challenges and Strategies of Foster Care

Challenges and Strategies of Foster Care

Childhood is supposed to be an enjoyable period of life, but unfortunately for some children, it can be filled with pain and suffering. One of the most difficult predicaments these children face is being removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect by their...

Grandparents Day 2022

Grandparents Day 2022

National Grandparents Day will be 61 years young on September 11, 2022. This day is set aside to honor and celebrate grandparents throughout the United States. The idea for Grandparents Day was born when Jacob Reingold, the chief executive of the Hebrew Home at...

Tips for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Tips for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

As a grandparent, you might not have expected to be raising kids at this stage in life. While people take care of their grandchildren for many different reasons, you’ll find that the hard work is worth it. Caring for your grandkids helps you to develop a special bond,...

What to Know About International Adoption

What to Know About International Adoption

The desire to give a child the best home possible often leads to some big adventures. International adoptions allow you to add a new member to your family that you might have never met otherwise. With so many children around the world who need a loving home, you can...

Dealing With Rejection as an Adoptive Parent

Dealing With Rejection as an Adoptive Parent

Kids need parents, but sometimes they don't get to be raised by their biological parents. The world needs other adults to step in and take care of children with nowhere else to go, whether it's fostering for a while or adopting them forever. Children in cases like...