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Annual AF Photo Contest
Enter your most stunning shots today!
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Meet the winners, Trey, Ally, and Carley, and the finalists.
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Meet the winners, Paul and Kimberly, and the finalists.
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Meet the winners, Houston and Jeff, and the finalists.
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A Question of Money
Well, it happened -- my daughter's birth mom called asking for money. How did my husband and I respond?
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What’s Your Open Adoption Truth?
After hearing back from many AdoptiveFamiliesCircle.com members who shared their stories, I'm pleased to kick off the Open Adoption Truth project with a video of Sadie, an adoptee who's also a birth mom and an adoptive mom.
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Unrelated? Oh, I Can Relate.
At first, the blended-family dynamics common in my daughter's biological mother's circle surprised me, but who knows better than a mom in an open adoption that you don't have to be related by marriage or DNA to love one another and call each other family?
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Can Some Things Ever Sound Right?
As the mother of an adopted child, there are a few idioms that now sound idiotic to me and definitely make me think twice when I hear them.
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Debacle
Our recent visit with our daughter's birth family felt like one big rush, with little time for heartfelt conversations. I came away with a few memories to treasure, and lessons learned about making the next visit go more smoothly.
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