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,...
Having a San Antonio Fiesta baby via birth or adoption? Here’s what you need to know about delivering, placing or adopting a child during Texas’ biggest annual celebration.
Finding the best adoption agency is the first step in making the best adoption plan. In a country with thousands of licensed adoption agencies, though, just deciding where to go can seem like a daunting task to pick the "best" one. (To say nothing of the countless...
What is it about Texas adoption that seems so popular? Why are so many out-of-state couples trying to adopt babies in Texas? Are there that many more females planning adoptions here? What advantages to placing parents or adoptive parents in Texas keeping their...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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