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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This is for all mothers everywhere-- and especially for mothers in need who choose adoption. Because for the past 341 months, Abrazo has been blessed to know and work with the very best mothers of all. Abrazo opened the first week of 1994 and this agency exists for...
"We don't get why adoption takes so long?" they asked. A childless couple who just finished unsuccessful fertility treatments, they contacted Abrazo hoping to hear there were plenty of babies readily available. They were surprised to learn that their adoption wait to...
Can we talk about adoption agencies and adoptee rights, please? When people contact adoption agencies to plan for adoption, they're presumably planning adoption for a child's benefit. (That's how adoption is supposed to work.) Whether someone's placing or adopting,...
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