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Announcing Our "Summer Fun" Photo Contest Winner!
As summer ends, and fall begins, we celebrate Kiya's first-place photo and reveal these runners up!
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We have a winning duo: Dad Kurt and son, Ryan! Check to see if your entry is one of the runners up!
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Reacting to the Russian Adoption Crisis
After an adoptive mother returned her son to Russia, other adoptive families reacted by sharing their stories of success or struggle.
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What If My Adopted Daughter Had Grown up in the Country Where She Was Born?
An unexpected encounter with an Ethiopian family prompts one adoptive mother to imagine the life that might have been for her Ethiopian child. Then her daughter brings her back down to earth,
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The Enthusiastic Adoption Ambush
I have made peace with the fact that I don't have to serve as an adoption educator to everyone I meet, and yet, getting keeping silent about the assumptions of strangers takes its own toll on me.
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Teaching Kids to Care
The terrible earthquake in Haiti prompts one mom to consider what her kids have learned about giving -- and what they have to teach her about generosity.
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Being There
Lessons about bigotry and racial discrimination are ones I'd just assume my children never learn. But, in the end, it's better we tackle them together.
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When Mommy Gets the Flu
When I caught the swine flu recently, our children's old memories and lingering fears of parental trauma rose again to the surface.
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The Reluctant Soccer Mom
On that soccer field full of 8-year-olds, I found no trace of the pale, thin, worried little girl we brought home from India almost three years ago.
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Our Sacred Responsibility
It's clear that letting D. go to a more attentive home had to be one of the better choices Anita Tedaldi made in the course of her adoption journey.
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The Sanjaya Problem
We never considered changing the kids' names. Those beautiful names belonged to them, and their identities were already formed when we adopted them... we just never anticipated the Sanjaya problem.
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