Have you ever noticed whose voice is typically missing in most adoption plans? It's the adoptees voice. Adoption professionals do a lot of talking, whether for the purpose of educating clients or providing guidance. Adopting parents are given ample opportunities to...
When an Adoption Plan Fails
When an adoption plan fails, regardless of which party walked away, it feels like a gut-punch to the heart. A failed adoption plan can be like a miscarriage. For days (or weeks or months) you've likely been preparing for what you thought (hoped) was going to be. The...
How Adoption Works
Wondering how adoption works? There are lots of different kinds of adoptions, There are domestic adoptions and international adoptions, private agency adoptions and attorney adoptions and public (state) adoptions. But if you're interested in how adoption works at...
Adoption Makes Family
The day that adoption makes family possible becomes an anniversary that gets forever defined by that family's bond over the years. Successful adoption stories make adoption anniversaries worth celebrating, and that is surely the goal behind every placement that's done...
Rewarded for Adopting
Should adoptive parents be rewarded for adopting? Traditionally, this was the common consensus in American adoption. Adopters were historically seen as selfless, giving people who took in unwanted urchins and raised them as their own, out of the goodness of their...
Save the Children of Texas
When you adopt from Abrazo, you help save the children of Texas, one child at a time. Abrazo works with placing parents all across the state. Some make adoption plans during pregnancy. Others revisit the adoption option later, by planning for a child they can no...
Never Forget
It's September 11, the nation's anniversary of that tragedy in New York that forever changed the landscape there and broke so many hearts all across the globe Children lost parents, parents lost children, and "never forget" became a worldwide rallying cry. Most...
Saving Babies
At Abrazo, we're all for saving babies. We're proud to have joined countless birthparents and adoptive parents in saving many since 1994. Over the years, we've seen and heard a lot. We've been privvy to many stories, and just as many miracles. We've gotten called into...
An Adoption Dispute
An adoption dispute is brewing in Minnesota, but to all those ready to try the case online: hold your fire. It's easy to take sides, but the whole truth isn't known yet. (Clearly.) This case reportedly involves a Minnesota mother who claims to have only learned of her...
When Your Child’s Birthparent is An Addict
When your child's birthparent is an addict or the child you're adopting is drug-exposed during pregnancy, your adoption journey may follow a map that will look more colorful than most. That doesn't mean it's better nor worse. It just means it's different than it would...
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