Once upon a time the parents who didn't listen used to be a childless couple who really wanted to adopt (but wanted to do it their way.) They'd heard of a little adoption agency in San Antonio called Abrazo that was doing big things, so they signed up and came to the...
It's Abrazo's founder, Elizabeth, here to share some thoughts on lost adoption connections. Because I recently learned of one of my own lost adoption connections, without whom I would not have ever built my career in adoption. Linda was an adoption attorney (and...
If you've been hearing the name "Sasha Riley" lately, his recently-released recordings raise a very real question about whether adoption monsters are real? William "Sasha" Riley is an alleged military veteran, who claims to have been a German-born child named Manuel...
Not so long ago, "protecting adoptees from ICE" would have likely meant warm clothes and good boots. But not any more, sadly. And in America today, protecting adoptees from ICE applies whether a child was adopted in the USA or internationally. To avoid any hot button...
These are tough times for lots of folks, so the best adoption agency in Texas, Abrazo, put together a list of places to get free help in Texas, for anyone in need. Finding Free Help in Texas Start with calling 2-1-1 or looking up the 211texas website, through which...
When it comes to open adoption, whether someone is making a placement plan or thinking of re-establishing lost contact, four words apply: better late than never! Adoption has typically been about timing (bad timing, that is.) Unplanned pregnancy usually is a crisis...
These days, it's not unusual for the public to question why adoption still matters. Or if it still matters, at all. After all, fewer bio-moms now consider placing babies for adoption than ever before. (Which means that hopeful adoptive couples nationwide are waiting...
There's much about adoption that can be good, but an adoption gone wrong is, perhaps, a sin for which there can never be a proper penance. That painful truth came to mind today, as news broke of South Korea's Truth & Reconcilation Commission reporting massive and...
One celebrity divorce in the news lately has us thinking of the cost of a broken adoption promise. It's one which-- sadly-- became a tragedy. Hugh Jackman and his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, are Australian celebrities known intentionally. Their very public divorce is...
Just after a controversial speech in Washington, D.C., Abrazo is already fielding questions about how threats to end birthright citizenship may impact adoption. So let's unpack this together, shall we? What is birthright citizenship, anyway? The United States...
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