Adoption Group: U.S. Adoptive Families

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U.S. Adoptive Families

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Help voices of adoption be heard today!

Hello friends of adoption. I am an adoptee interested in better understanding open adoption communication with birth and adoptive families. If you have contact with a birth parent and are…
- Posted by kristenhaberkorn to U.S. Adoptive Families on Jan 26, 2020 at 3:01pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
I remember seeing a consultant who posts here but blanking on her name

does anyone know who I mean? asking for a friend. ty.
- Posted by mamallama to U.S. Adoptive Families on Nov 09, 2019 at 8:53pm | 2 Comments | Post a reply
book recommendations about how babies are 'made'

Hello my 4 1/2 years old is starting to ask questions about the biology of how babies are made. He knows he’s adopted, but the question is how a woman…
- Posted by abz_999 to U.S. Adoptive Families on Oct 04, 2019 at 8:31pm | 7 Comments | Post a reply
My story and goal

Hello! My name is Ethan Cahoon and my sister and me were adopted in 2005 from Kemerovo, Russia. As you probably know, Russian adoption is closed to the United States.…
- Posted by Ethan Cahoon to U.S. Adoptive Families on Jul 30, 2019 at 3:13pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
book recommendations for preschooler

Hello. I’m looking for books about adoption to read with my 4 year old. He was adopted domestically at birth, and we are a secular family, so I’m looking for…
- Posted by abz_999 to U.S. Adoptive Families on Jun 12, 2019 at 5:57pm | 4 Comments | Post a reply
Birth Family Contact for Newborns with Prenatal Drug Exposure

Has anyone here adopted a newborn exposed to drugs in-utero? How is contact with the birth family handled? I wouldn’t mind an open adoption if that was the only option…
- Posted by ag11 to U.S. Adoptive Families on Jun 07, 2019 at 12:02am | 5 Comments | Post a reply
im a Ugandan looking for some cool american friends

My thanks go to whoever created this group..i have much interest in this,I’m James from Uganda looking for some cool American friends to connect and have .(JavaScript must be enabled…
- Posted by kaddu james to U.S. Adoptive Families on Jun 05, 2019 at 6:07pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
OK to let adopted tween move in with recovered mother?

A friends adopted tween is asking to move in with her mother now that she’s no longer “too young for a baby” and now that she’s “finished with school”. All…
- Posted by girlengineer to U.S. Adoptive Families on May 17, 2019 at 3:15am | 7 Comments | Post a reply