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In this issue:
- Adoptive Families’ 2019 Cover Photo Contest Winners
- New adoption memoirs, novels, young adult fiction, and more to add to your reading list
- “From Waiting Mom to Flexible Working Mom”
- “Parenting from Afar” – A mother on watching her child grow and make the leap into adulthood
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In this issue:
- “I Needed a Different Parenting Handbook…” – Parenting Children with FASD
- “Finding My Inner Mom”
- A father through transracial adoption thought he’d heard it all — until this interaction
- Parents Share the Moment They Knew They’d Adopt
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In this issue:
- 8 Keys to Talking About Adoption
- “Reconnecting with My Children’s Birth Mother After She Battled Addiction”
- An adoptee on wondering, ‘What would my life have been like if I had not been adopted?’
- Parents on the “Match Meeting” with an Expectant Mother
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In this issue:
- New Music for Foster and Adoptive Families
- “As parents, we are supposed to raise our children to self-sufficient adulthood… so why does it hurt like a %$#* when we do our job?”
- Life as a Conspicuous Adoptive Family
- How Is Parenting After Adoption Different? Parents Share…
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In this issue:
- 21 Noteworthy Adoption Books Published in 2018
- “The Advice I Wish I’d Been Given While Waiting to Adopt”
- Navigating a Last-Minute “Stork Drop” Adoption
- “My son and I were bonding again… it was as if seeds that were sowed and nurtured over the years began to bloom.”
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In this issue:
- Adoptive Families’ 2018 Cover Photo Contest Winners
- Never Too Old for Family: Adopting Teens from Foster Care
- “When people find out we’re a foster family, they ask, ‘Are you afraid of what they’ll teach your children?’ Well, here’s what my kids have learned….”
- “After just eight years as father and child, would our bond hold as my son went off to college?”
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In this issue:
- Those Three Words – a birth mother on the complicated emotions that accompanied her second pregnancy, 11 years after placing her daughter for adoption
- “Off to college, already…?”
- “Ensuring That My Black Teenager Gets Home Safe Every Night”
- Newborn, toddler, or teen? Parents share how they decided on age when adopting
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In this issue:
- Roundup: The Best of Adoption at School
- “Adoption kismet paired my introverted self with an upbeat, sociable son”
- “From Then to Now” – The father of a teen shares memories from his parenting journey
- Parents Share: “What My Child’s Friends Want to Know About Adoption”
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In this issue:
- When Grandparents Adopt: How to Explain Your New Role to Your (Grand)Child
- “Back to Bucaramanga” – Meeting My Daughter’s Birth Mother in Colombia
- “I see a child who was confused, but yearning for what we all want and need” – Read the cover family’s foster adoption story
- Parents Share: “Our Open Adoption Over the Years”
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In this issue:
- Summer Reading Excerpt from That Kind of Mother: “All little black boys need to hear this at some point…”
- “Motherhood, Cleaved.” – The Dichotomy of Adoptive Motherhood
- Did This Boy’s Friend Mean to Tease About Adoption?
- “My Best Bonding Advice for New Parents”
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In this issue:
- Positive Parenting: How to Say “Yes” When Raising an Oppositional Teen
- “First Words” After Adopting Older Children from Foster Care
- Here’s how one mom responded when someone referred to her child’s birth parents as ‘trashy’
- My “Adoption Hero”
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In this issue:
- Lessons I’ve Learned from My Children
- On meeting my children’s birth mother after adopting from foster care
- “The Talk”: Revealing the Burden of Racism to My African-American Child
- Celebrating with an Adoption Shower
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In this issue:
- Talking with Your Preteen About Adoption
- From Stoic Toddler to Cuddly 10-Year-Old – One Father’s Story
- “Now you’ll get pregnant!” and other adoption misconceptions shared by readers
- “My biological brother was eager to claim us as family, but I was intensely uncomfortable in the role of sudden sister….”
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In this issue:
- Using Photos to Tell a Newly Adopted Older Child “You Belong”
- Filling in Some of the “Missing Pieces” After Foster Adoption
- “Pondering Race, Culture, and Identity…at Starbucks”
- Because Baby Showers Are Bad Enough Without Nosy Questions…
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In this issue:
- Adoption Cost & Timing in 2016-2017: Latest Survey Data
- “Adoption was a dream come true…but it didn’t erase my painful feelings about infertility”
- How to Get Through a Failed Expectant Mother Match?
- The Paternity Test, Part 2: “The Results Are In…”
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In this issue:
- 32 Noteworthy New Adoption Books Published in 2017
- Connecting with the Global Chinese Adoptee Community
- How Do You Respond When People Ask How Long Adoption Took?
- “Could this man be our child’s unnamed birth father? After meeting him, we hoped so…”
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In this issue:
- “You’re Not My Real Mom:” Parents Share Their Responses
- Confronting Discrimination: Empowering Children to Face Racism
- Gifts of Love: Meaningful Holiday Exchanges
- Uncharted Territory: Embracing Adoption
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In this issue:
- Adoptive Families’ 2017 Cover Photo Contest Winners
- A Helping Hand Through the Foster Adoption Process
- How Parenting Older Children Adopted from Foster Care Is Like Playing Jenga … Backward
- Our 2017 Picks for Gifts That Give Back
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In this issue:
- Parent-to-Parent Advice on Open Adoption
- “Waiting on a Dream” – an Uncertain Wait After an Expectant Mother Match
- A dad on caring for his black children’s hair
- Explaining Foster Reunification to Young Children
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In this issue:
- Promoting Adoption Awareness in the Classroom
- “Caught on Camera” – Our Surprise Adoption Match
- Can Black Children Wear Clothing with Watermelons?
- Parents Share: Talking with the Teacher About Adoption
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In this issue:
- Maintaining your emotional connection with your teen
- “5 things I wish my white parents knew”
- On titles and bonding after older-child adoption
- Understanding adoption in all its joyous, bittersweet complexity
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In this issue:
- Excerpt from The Art of Waiting: When “Baby Fever” hits
- One mom shares why she opted out of IVF
- On explaining to our children why our families draw stares and questions
- “Aren’t adoptive moms allowed to have a bad day?”
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In this issue:
- Movies with adoption themes + questions to spark discussion
- A father on empowering a newly adopted teen
- AF Picks: Diverse dolls and toys
- “Do we talk about adoption enough? Too much?”
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In this issue:
- Parenting adopted teens and setting limits
- “On letting go…and meeting my daughters” – a linked birth mother and adoptive mother share their stories
- Parents debate post-adoption contact agreements
- “Dear Other Mothers…thank you”
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In this issue:
- Making the decision to grow your family through adoption
- Keeping your spirits up during the wait
- Letting go of preconceived notions about bonding
- “What if…” – a mother responds to a pre-adoptive parent’s most secret worry
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In this issue:
- Adoption Cost and Timing in 2015-2016
- Finding the right school fit for transracially adopted children/li>
- Television shows that (mostly) “get” adoption
- “Our first anniversary as family was bittersweet for my daughter; this year, she wants to celebrate”
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In this issue:
- How to talk about and maintain contact with birth siblings
- A teen on becoming a big sister to six children through foster adoption
- Noteworthy new adoption books
- “My winding path to family after tragedy”
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In this issue:
- Encouraging a hyphenated identity
- Adoption charities for year-end giving
- “The best gift we received after becoming a parent through adoption”
- Embracing family relationships that don’t come with exact names
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In this issue:
- 2016 Cover Photo Contest Winners
- Foster parenting: “If you’ve made a difference in one child’s life, it’s worth it”
- Maintaining openness after adopting older children from foster care
- Gifts that give back to adoption and children’s causes
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In this issue:
- Parenting with an open heart (when you have full contact, or none at all)
- A birth mom on attending her son’s birthday party
- What words does a waiting family want to hear?
- “Stop implying that adoption—and my kids—are second best”
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In this issue:
- Rethinking the family tree and other assignments
- Telling the teacher your child was adopted (or not)
- “Bonding with my teen…in the baby department”
- 25 children’s books that showcase diversity
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In this issue:
- Talking with Black children about racism and the police
- Excerpt from The Hundred-Year Flood, by Matthew Salesses
- Displaying photos of the birth family at home
- On searching for, but not finding, birth parents
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In this issue:
- Adoption cost & timing – the latest data
- The adoption process through expectant mothers’ eyes
- Looking back on China’s one-child policy
- Attaching through love, hugs, and play
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In this issue:
- Adoptees on the benefits of open adoption & birth country visits
- How to request the support you need from family & friends
- “To the white parents of my black son’s friends”
- How one family tuned their parenting to their son’s special needs
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In this issue:
- How to adopt from U.S. foster care
- Search and reunion with birth parents in China
- 2015 Cover Photo Contest Winners
- Getting ‘The Call’ when you least expect it
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In this issue:
- Excerpts from must-read memoirs by an adoptee (God and Jetfire) and a birth mother (Postcards from Cookie)
- Open adoption with a troubled birth parent
- Talking about adoption at bedtime
- An adoptee on loving two sets of “real” parents
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In this issue:
- An open adoption reference guide for families
- Raising a child of color in America—while white
- Data from the 2013-2014 Adoption Cost & Timing Survey
- Making sense of feelings about infertility & adoption through writing
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In this issue:
- Three adoptees on race, identity, and birth parent search
- Best movies of 2014: reviews + discussion guides
- Incorporating adoption into your family’s summer plans
- Healing your child’s food insecurities
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In this issue:
- Five birth mothers in open adoptions share their experiences
- Two amazing stories of identical twins, reunited after adoption
- How to parent through the “testing” phase of older-child adoption
- Meet the dazzling winners of our 2014 Cover Photo Contest
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In this issue:
- Special Report: parenting your adopted teen
- Helping children adjust to a new older sibling
- Creative ways to stay in touch with birth parents
- Q&A with Angela Tucker, of Closure, on meeting her birth parents and feedback about the documentary that followed her search
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In this issue:
- Surprising emotions that can accompany new-parenthood joy
- How to start talking about race and racism with your child
- Two mothers and a birth mother in open adoptions discuss the match, contact agreements, birth siblings, and more
- Breastfeeding without birthing
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In this issue:
- A national study sheds light on birth mothers’ experiences after placement
- Dispelling myths about foster adoption
- Picks for a family movie night that will start a discussion about adoption
- Meet the winners of our 2013 Cover Photo Contest
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In this issue:
A special collection of real families’ photos and stories on:
- Our path to adoption
- Getting the call & the first meeting
- Building new family bonds & honoring birth parents
- Family traditions & special memories
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In this issue:
- Nia Vardalos on adopting a preschooler from foster care
- Honoring your child’s birth culture
- An introduction to digital scrapbooking
- Claiming your role as parent after older-child adoption
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In this issue:
- Caring for a transracially adopted child’s skin
- A healthy feeding routine that will establish trust & attachment
- 20 questions kids ask about adoption
- Personal stories from an adoptee and a birth grandmother
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In this issue:
- Four women on walking away from infertility treatments and TTC, as well as choosing donor egg or surrogacy
- The first year after older-child adoption
- Piecing together your child’s medical history
- Meet the winners of our 2012 Cover Photo Contest
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In this issue:
- Special Section: Adoption in the Classroom
- Adopting a premature infant
- When your child’s birth mother is preparing to parent a birth sibling
- African-American hair – standing up for natural styles
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In this issue:
- How to get past bedtime struggles
- Tailoring adoption talks to your child’s development
- Bringing birth heritage into your everyday lives
- Responding to bullying at school
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In this issue:
- Seven ways to talk with your older child about her life before adoption
- Teens speak out on adoption & identity
- Older parent adoption: unique joys & challenges
- Travel medicine advice for your adoption trip
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In this issue:
- 10 rules for talking about adoption
- Open adoption over the years
- Parenting deliberately in transracial adoption
- Developmental delays & early intervention services
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In this issue:
- Inside/Outside: The transracial adoptee experience
- Scrapbooking made simple
- Moving on after a failed expectant mother match
- Meet the winners of our 2011 Cover Photo Contest
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In this issue:
- Weighing diversity & academics when choosing a school
- Adopting a toddler or older child
- Secrets of successful adoption travel
- Is adoption “sad”?
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In this issue:
- Adoption conversations with very young children
- Surviving a failed match, country change, and other bumps on the road to adoption
- How-to: planning for the call & finalization
- 2011 Summer Reading Special
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In this issue:
- Helping your family understand adoption
- Recognizing and handling post-adoption depression
- A birth mother and an adoptive mother on their open adoptions
- Eight conversations to have with your teen
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In this issue:
- Three transracial families on stereotypes and racism
- Explaining reproduction and birth to your child
- The complicated feelings about infertility, even after adopting
- Investigating adoption leave & preparing for parenthood
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In this issue:
- Should you ‘friend’ your child’s birth mother?
- Letting the adoption conversation evolve
- Bonding through baby care
- ”We pulled back in our open adoption?
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In this issue:
- Answers to the most common questions about foster adoption
- How to encourage strong friendships for your child
- ”What our newly adopted teen taught me about parenthood”
- Meet the winners of our 2010 Cover Photo Contest
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