Let us all take the opportunity to join in saying "thank you, Kathleen Silber!" If you're new to the adoption community, you may be wondering who Kathleen Silber is, and why we are paying tribute to her? Here's the reason: for all the adoption practitioners who brag...
If you need to know how to do a last-minute adoption, you've come to the right place. Since 1994, Abrazo has been serving the needs of parents who've struggled to choose wisely for their children in times of trouble. Because the reality is that nobody makes adoption...
If you’re having a hard time celebrating Birthmother’s Day or Mother’s Day (or motherhood or the lack of it), don’t force it. Feel what you feel. Know that you’re not alone. At this point, here in America, many of us are struggling to define the whole concept of...
"I'm looking for adoption help nearby, can you help me?" She was pregnant and due soon. She'd left an abusive relationship out-of-state and moved to Texas with her small kids in a car that was barely held together with prayers and duct tape. Along the way, she'd...
Ask anyone who's ever sought to become a parent through adoption, and they'll tell you: hoping to adopt is hard. At first, the hope comes easy. When you finally get to the point where your infertility doctor is willing to call it quits, you grieve the end of that...
To anyone out there who's wishing they weren't parenting, if you don't want your kids, we know plenty of folks who long to be a mom and dad. We were, frankly, appalled to read a Golf Monthly article entitled "1 in 50 Americans Would Put a Child Up For Adoption To Play...
Abrazo has a sterling record of helping children and parents since 1994-- but we are not in the business of "rescuing kids." And we'll be the first to tell you that all too often, those who brag about rescuing kids are doing precious little to actually "save"...
Being in a state like Texas, there's a lot to unpack when one thinks about open adoption boundaries and barriers. Texas adoption laws allow for open adoptions, yet that any open adoption agreements entered into in Texas are not legally-enforceable. (So yes, parents...
If there's one thing that people need to know coming into the process it's surely this: open adoption is not magic. Open adoption is a kinder way to plan out the future for a child who must be adopted. It is a gentler approach for all the parents involved, so they can...
There are countless folks across America who are (understandably) desperate to adopt. Still, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it-- no matter how desperate any hopeful wanna-be parent might feel? One Texas woman recently found out out the hard way how...
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