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Adoptee’s Right to Know
One principle Abrazo holds sacred is an adoptee's right to know the truth of their origins (including the birthparents who are part of it.) This is why every placement we do includes an entrustment agreement. In it, the adopting parents promise to raise the child...
Adoption Done Right
Any adoption done right is a process that transforms lives. An adoption done right never cuts corners, and it's more than a mere transfer of custody rights. Much as folks want to find a way to make adoption easy, anything as life-changing as an adoption decision just...
Desperate to Adopt
When someone is desperate to adopt, they have usually been a long, hard path of infertility treatment and disappointment after disappointment already. Their longing for a child is painfully obvious, like the scent of workout wear that's gone too long between washings....
Texas Adoption Centers Around Children’s Needs
At Abrazo, every Texas adoption centers around children's needs, first and foremost. The process starts when a parent-to-be contacts our agency for help, of course. That may be a person with a crisis pregnancy or a child they feel unable to parent. Or it may be a...
Dealing with an Unexpected Baby
Anyone dealing with an unexpected baby is somebody in crisis, who deserves some kindness. It's easy for others to criticize females with surprise pregnancies. "How didn't she know she was pregnant?" people ask. Yet the reality is that there are plenty of babies born...
Lost Birthmothers
Whatever fears folks have about open adoption, in truth-- lost birthmothers can become a much greater problem for adoptees and the parents that love them both. In an open adoption, the child being adopted has the benefit of growing up with firsthand information about...
Using Drugs During Pregnancy
Everyone knows that using drugs during pregnancy is not a good thing. So why does it happen, and what can be done to help drug-addicted moms and their babies? For Absidi (name has been changed), drugs were a family tradition. Her dad was in prison for dealing, and her...
The Wrong Way to Do Adoption
There's a right way to do adoption, and there's the wrong way to do adoption. And how you go about it matters, because the impact it will have on any child involved can be lifelong-- for good or bad. The Right Way to do Adoption The right way to do adoption is not the...
Why Dads Still Matter
However important moms are, it's essential to remember why dads still matter. These days, there are more children than ever growing up with single moms, and we don't mean to take anything away from them. But even the best of moms can't be dads... and at Abrazo, we are...
When Kids Deserve Better
What happens when kids deserve better, but the adults they're relying on can't-- or won't-- make it happen for them? How long should babies and toddlers have to wait on parents to provide them with the stable and safe homes and nurture they deserve? Kinship adoption...
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