She already has six children she is raising as a single mom, but pregnant again, she's drawn the line at another, and when asked why, she replied "because adoption is better." Better than what, we asked? She looked around her cluttered two bedroom apartment, at her...
The Truth about Adoption
When you're thinking about adoption for your baby or you're considering giving up a child for adoption, it seems like everybody's got something to say, good or bad, but what's the truth about adoption? (And where do you find the truth, when it seems like the whole...
When Will Texas Honor Adoptees’ Rights?
Once again, it's time for the nation to again raise the question: when will Texas honor adoptees' rights? After all, it comes up, again and again, Whenever the Texas Legislature reconvenes, those who care about civil rights and those who care about adoptees rally to...
How Adoption Has Changed
Most people are still surprisingly unaware of how adoption has changed over the years. It used to be that American adoptions were kept secret. Folks whispered about "girls in trouble" who went away to a maternity home to hide being "pregnant out of wedlock" and to...
Dear Adoption Scammer
Dear Adoption Scammer, you apparently forgot that you'd met us before, when you came to talk with us this month about giving up a baby you're not really going to deliver in March? You didn't seem to recognize us, even though we already knew it was you. Yet the moment...
Adoption Travel
For all the thousands of holiday travelers whose airline reservations get waylaid due to bad weather, the stakes could be no greater than it is for those whose adoption travel plans get complicated due to airline cancellations. Couples doing an open adoption typically...
A Baby Changes Everything
Lots of people have lots of different feelings about pregnancy, of course, but if there's one universal truth, it's likely this: a baby changes everything. People of faith are reminded, this time of year, about the Holy Birth, in which a pregnant and unmarried...
For Adoptees Who Wonder
A school-age child who was adopted through Abrazo as a baby recently came back with his parents for a visit with our staff. He had one very important question for our director that his parents could not answer for him. Elizabeth was out of town that day, so the staff...
Questions Adoptees Ask Birthmothers
One thing that placing moms in open adoption sometimes worry about are the questions adoptees ask birthmothers in the future. "Kenzie" was attending community college when she had an appendix attack in class. Upon arriving at the hospital, she was stunned when the...
Waiting to Adopt
Waiting to adopt is like having a pregnancy with no due date and few fringe benefits (except that you and your spouse can still enjoy adult beverages now and then, perhaps?) Ask any prospective adoptive parent what the worst parts of the adoption process are and...
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