Trashing adoptive parents seems to have become social media's favorite indoor sport, lately. Anti-adoption websites label hopeful adopters as "adoptoraptors" and repost their profiles with vicious commentary rebuking them for seeking to adopt at all. Disgruntled adult...
Here's Abrazo's list of the Nine Cardinal Sins in Adoption. There are different ways to excel at or fail in adoption, of course. But if you want to do the sort of adoption that makes Abrazo especially proud of you and which helps you sleep well at night, then here are...
Adoption time either seems to run maddeningly slowly, or frustratingly fast. (And there's typically little or nothing in between.) It's hard to explain to those who have never been part of the adoption process. But anyone whose life has been touched by adoption can...
There's a fine line in open adoption. Anybody involved needs to know this, upfront. In Texas, the law says there's no legal difference between an open adoption and any other adoption. For a baby or child to be free to be adopted, the first parents must surrender all...
At Abrazo, there's no just such thing as an unwanted baby. No child is ever unwanted. In the twenty-five years since Abrazo opened, we've found there are some cases that are more in demand than others. "Healthy newborns" always have plenty of prospective adopters...
People often wonder how open adoption works? The truth is this: it's harder than it looks. Well, not harder, necessarily... but the best open adoptions take work to make them work. Open adoption looks easy. It looks like people just found each other, agreed to be...
She is pregnant and sleeping in the park these days. She has lost all her worldly possessions recently. So she lacks an ID, which would be necessary to qualify to stay in a shelter. She's in her late twenties, but looks much younger. Child Protective Services already...
Dear Texas Governor Abbott: Greetings from the best 'lil adoption agency in Texas, Abrazo Adoption Associates. Our staff has been visiting your workplace every other year, so you may be familiar with us? (Because unlike a lot of Texas adoption agencies, we speak out...
When it comes to having more kids, how do you know when enough is enough? Babies don't just happen when the timing is "right," of course. For people with infertility, babies don't "just happen" at all. Couples with infertility have to make very conscientious choices...
Hey, you: mother who just placed or mom who just earned the title through adoption... welcome to the motherhood. (Adoption is the mother of all neighborhoods, after all!) Whether you've been longing to join this club for-seemingly-ever (as many adopting mothers do) or...
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