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...
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...
When CPS takes a child from a parent, it feels like someone just dropkicked their heart clear out of their chest. No matter how it happened, parent/s and child can often be traumatized by Child Protective Services' involvement. (Texas lawyers can answer basic...
It's that season when that our adoption agency welcomes stacks of annual reports, and yes, we do indeed read every single one... but this year, we are reading them astounded at the year that was. This time last year, your annual reports were filled with joyous tales...
All parents are born, of course-- but only some get to become chosen parents through open adoption at Abrazo. Getting chosen parents here usually takes 6-12 months or less for childless couples. (For couples who already have kids, the wait is generally twelve months...
Are you thankful for adoption? As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, in the midst of National Adoption Awareness Month, the best answer to that question is unique to the heart of whomever gets asked it. For many people, adoption remains the broken road by which they...
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