The Brave Ones
Has anyone ever called you "brave" after you mentioned that you have an open relationship with your child's birth mother? Well, it's happened to me, on more than one occasion,…
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Adoption Misconceptions
More from AFC's adoption bloggers about dispelling misconceptions, rumors, and just plain untruths about international and domestic adoption.-
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In Denial About My Son’s Attachment Struggles
I never thought my son could have attachment issues because we adopted him as a newborn. I was quite wrong.... While waiting to adopt, I read many adoptive parenting…
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Can I Love Another?
Can I love another child as much as I love my son? That is a question I have been asking myself lately. As we get closer to adopting another child,…
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“Do You See Your Son?”
As an adoptee and an adoptive mom, I have heard my fair share of adoption related questions over the years. By now, most of them don't surprise me and I…
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Surprise, Surprise
If there is one thing that surprises me when it comes to adoption, it's how much things still manage to surprise me. Ten years in and I'm still floored by…
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When Entitlement is a Good Thing
Entitlement. Now there's a loaded word. Supermodels feel entitled to rough up their staff, powerful men feel entitled to cheat, or, from personal experience, to speak loudly on their cell…
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Explaining Adoption Where There’s No Culture of Adoption
Every two years my husband Matt, our two children, Isabel and Noah, and I take a trip back to my homeland, Ecuador, to visit my family. We have a great…
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Seeing Adoption from the Other Side, Part Two
Read part one of "Seeing Adoption from the Other Side." When my friend Jessica* gave birth, my daughter through domestic adoption was two months old. I remember rocking my baby…
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What Do Our Children Really Leave Behind in the Orphanage?
When Melissa Faye Greene was promoting her latest book, No Biking in the House Without A Helmet, I took my three children with me to a book talk. My 11-year-old…
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Seeing Adoption from the Other Side, Part One
There are moments in every person's adoption journey that reshape our beliefs and challenge us to think of adoption in a new way. Befriending Jessica* was one such moment for…
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