This is Elizabeth, Abrazo's director, with some thoughts on sharenting, adoption, 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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
Abrazo has been a leader in toddler adoption in Texas since 1994. Most people assume that adoption is just for babies. But toddler adoption is an essential option in child placement planning, as well. Mothers who consider adoption during pregnancy are often persuaded...
Today's adoption finalization was a beautiful reminder of what open adoption means. Google "what open adoption means" and you'll find plenty of different explanations. What open adoption means in its simplest form is just that birthparents and adoptive parents have...
Today being the 18th anniversary of September 11, our topic of discussion at birthparent support group today was, naturally, disaster and resilience. After all, on September 11, 2001, three thousand people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on American soil....
Can we talk about how not to do adoption? There's plenty of information about how to do adoption, but let's look at how not to do adoption, because lately, it seems that's not discussed widely enough. We get it: adoption is not a cheap pursuit. The adoption process...
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