The whole thing started with three words: "adoption near me." That was what she googled, the day she realized her baby deserved more. More than a life of hardship. More than a future with no father. More than an unemployed, stressed-out single mom who didn't know who...
The best way to evaluate the success of any adoption, perhaps, is to periodically self-review. Ask yourself, from time to time: "what is the state of our adoption union?" Even our nation's leaders do an annual "state of the union" address. So it's just as important...
The vast majority of birthmothers support adoptee rights, contrary to public misconceptions. After all, if anyone had reason to oppose adoptees being able to see their original birth records, one might think it would be birthmothers. And those who subscribe to the...
Adoption isn't easy, and life isn't fair, and that's the gig. Those are the thoughts that come to mind recently. In recent weeks, our staff has witnessed an couple's adoption match falling apart, borne another birthmom's grief, heard others' frustrations about the...
"Did she or didn't she?" was the raging question in San Antonio, as the city pondered the latest claim from the mother of missing child James Chairez. (Update: the child's body was eventually found and his mother is in prison.) James was just a one-year-old last...
For anyone looking for Texas safe haven adoption alternatives, here's the good news: Texas offers plenty of safe, ethical options to spare them the lifelong trauma of legalized child dumping. There's no need to ever abandon a child! Unfortunately, though, the Texas...
If there's one thing adoption participants know a thing or two about, it's persevering in adoption. Because adoption just isn't simple-- whether you've been adopted, are adopting, have placed, are giving up a child for adoption, have adopted, or work in adoption....
We are overjoyed to see folks united for Texas adoptee rights this year. Every two years, Abrazo has joined in the push to persuade the Texas Legislature to recognize the civil rights of Texas adoptees. Every other year, we draft a letter of appeal and head to Austin...
For all its power to transform lives, adoption isn't easy. Maybe it seemed easier years ago, because it wasn't done in the open. For a long time, adoption was not discussed in "polite society" at all. Adoption was something done in secret, whether one was "giving up a...
She had come to Abrazo in search of a new beginning. Not yet thirty, she already felt old. She'd dropped out of school and left home during her first pregnancy, but had lost that child to the State. She dulled the pain with street drugs and went on looking for love in...
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