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Why Choose Adoption?

Adoption is not for the faint of heart. It is a journey that will last beyond your life time. There are many reasons adoptive parents decide to adopt. They want to be parents. This is the reason my...

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More Than Just a Picture

Getting chosen by a birth mother is a lot of things, but I never realized that my great pictures played a part in our fast success! It was about 3-4 months after we adopted our little boy that we were...

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Paying it Forward

Not long after the adoption of our son Noah was finalized, we asked one another, “After everything we went through to become parents, would we do it again?”  The answer was an obvious, unequivocal,...

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Adoption Grants

When my family began our adoption journey more than 10 years ago, we felt called to adopt. It was a great feeling, but we lacked the financial means to reach our goal. I began to do research on the...

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Playing the Nesting Game

How much nesting is considered overboard? Most couples when they decide the time is right to have a child get a nine month waiting period.  As adoptive parents, we are constantly bombarded with the...

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Flipping the Adoption Switch On and Off

One night, back before I met my wife, I was half asleep when my roommate came in and started to get ready for bed. “Turn off the hall light once you’re done, k?” I said with my eyes half open. “What?”...

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Our Adoption Journey Begins

Seven years ago, the first ultrasound of my only pregnancy showed me in no uncertain terms that I was about to become the mother of identical twins. My first reaction was elation, but it was edged with...

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Adoption Not Automatic for Infertile Couples

Imagine if society talked about finding a marriage partner as matter-of-factly as it does about infertile couples adopting.  Rather than sympathizing with two single friends, they would be pushed...

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Encouraging a Colleague to Adopt

I recently encouraged a colleague to adopt.  The topic came up unexpectedly, and I found myself relating our fostering experience and suggesting that she adopt an older child or even siblings rather...

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Are you ready to adopt?

Most of us think of a family as a Dad, Mom, and 2.5 children. Nobody really discusses how those children came to be — fertility treatments, adoption, surrogacy, or donor sperm/eggs are just a few of...

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