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...
At least half of the birthparents whom Abrazo serves have opted for placing while parenting. If you're not sure what that means, you're not alone, because most people still assume that birthparents who place are young teenagers who couldn't possibly raise a child on...
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...
As wonderful as adoption reunions can be, reunion doesn't cure all that's been broken in every lost relationship. It just can't. (It's easy to think otherwise, though, when you're caught up in the excitement of reuniting with someone who's been lost to you.) Many...
Once upon a time, there was a reader who longed to hear a modern adoption story. Perhaps they were weary of the infertility journey and longed for assurance there was still another option? Or maybe she found herself facing an unwanted pregnancy in a state that limited...
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