Adoptive Parents: Add ‘American Baby’ to Your Reading List

Adoptive Parents: Add ‘American Baby’ to Your Reading List

Adoptive parents and children may wonder about the real history of adoption. Closed adoptions were the norm until about the mid-1970s. Before then, teenage and unmarried pregnant women were usually scandalized, sent to homes for unwed pregnant girls and women or to...
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...
Online Resources for New Adoptive Parents

Online Resources for New Adoptive Parents

Adoptive parents are happy to have a child, and they are ready to gather as much information about adoption as they can. The spectrum of materials with information on adoption for online reading is broad. However, the 5 resources below in descending can be more...
How to Help Orphans for Those Who Can’t Adopt

How to Help Orphans for Those Who Can’t Adopt

Orphan kids around the world face a lot of challenges, and most of them find themselves alone. Most of the children end up being orphans due to a myriad of reasons. In underdeveloped countries, the significant causes of children becoming orphans are HIV/ AIDS, a...
Adopting as a Single Parent: What to Know

Adopting as a Single Parent: What to Know

Adoption is a tough process to go through when you’re in a relationship; adopting as a single parent can be tougher. Unfortunately, a negative stigma surrounds single parents thanks to How society views parenthood and a healthy family. Though this viewpoint has...