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The Birthparent You Never Knew
Dear Adoptee: permit us to offer a bit of insight about the birthparent you never knew. The truth is you've always known her/him/them, even if you've never met. Why? Because their cells live on in you. And you still know what her heartbeat sounded like from the...
Pregnancy after Placing
Dear Birthmother: if you feel conflicted about having another pregnancy after placing, allow us assure you! You have every right to have another child in the future. You are entitled to parent after having placed. (And if you placed through Abrazo, know that your...
Sharenting, Adoption & Child Exploitation
This is Elizabeth, Abrazo's director, with some thoughts on sharenting, adoption, and child exploitation. These are my own opinions, and I'm thinking aloud here, so bear with me, y'all... Granted, this is hardly an uplifting or inspirational blog topic during National...
Lost Connections and Adoption Ghosting
At Abrazo's recent orientation event, a question arose about lost connections and adoption ghosting. There's a common misconception that whenever open adoptions go closed, it's because the adoptive parents shut down access. The reality, however, is that successful...
Adopting Isn’t Easy
Let's be honest: adopting isn't easy. (Nor should it be.) This weekend, a group of adopting parents from across the USA are traveling to San Antonio. They're coming here for Abrazo's very last Parents of Tomorrow weekend of this decade. In order to qualify, they've...
Questions to Ask Adoptive Families
If you're trying to choose someone to adopt your child, it helps to know what questions to ask adoptive families. (You wouldn't want to place your baby with just anybody, after all!) These days, it's easy to find people who want to adopt. Nationwide, more than 50...
Just a Piece of Paper
"It's just a piece of paper," she told herself, as she sat in her hospital bed, contemplating the legal document that would change everything forever. Three days ago, she'd delivered the result of an unplanned pregnancy that happened nine months earlier. She'd been a...
How to Get a Homestudy
If you're exploring how to get a homestudy done, this is a good place to get started. Ruben and Hannah have finished infertility treatments and decided to adopt. They'd assumed that just filling out an adoption agency application would be enough? But then they learn...
Can I Get Paid for Giving a Baby Up for Adoption?
"Can I get paid for giving a baby for adoption?" she asked. She really wasn't asking out of greed. She was in a bad spot, needed to feed her kids and had another baby on the way. "I have a friend who said she'd bought a used car with the money someone gave her for...
Real Relationships in a Digital Age
One of the challenges of open adoption these days is maintaining real relationships in a digital age. Because of our agency's infertility requirement, Abrazo couples usually have undergone fertility treatment for years before adopting. Thus, Abrazo's adoptive parents...
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