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...
If tonight's sky is darker yet the moon seems brighter, it might be because heaven has gained another guiding star. The Abrazo community knew him as “Grandpa Bruce.” He wasn’t really everybody’s grandfather, of course. But he was “grandpa” to the adoptive family who...
Adopting is hard... As anyone who's adopted can tell you, there's a mountain of paperwork that's required. Applications, income tax returns, floor plans. Photos of the applicants and their home. Reference letters. Proof of infertility status. Employment references....
Dear Stable Person with Love to Share: a child needs you. You may (or may not) have considered foster care or adoption before. “I don’t know if this is for us,” you may be saying. After all, your lives are secure, your relationships feel solid, and your home life is...
This will surely be an Easter and Passover like no other, but let us rise to the challenge and make it a holiday to remember. (Even if it seems, for now, like coronavirus has forever changed life as we know it.) Adoptive families are understandably frantic about...
It's said that "we hurt most the ones we love" and that's never more true than what's done to children when there's parental alienation in adoption. "Parental alienation" is a term that arose out of divorce and joint custody disputes. It refers to the efforts of one...
Anyone who has watched the wrenching real-life saga on Netflix surely comes away wondering: could adoption have saved Gabriel Fernandez? If you don't have Netflix, you may not know the tragedy that befell eight-year-old Gabriel Fernandez. He was just one of the many...
"How to Bust an Adoption Scammer" is not a course they teach in grad school. (But if you're going into social work to work in adoption, it probably should be.) Adoption scams can be perpetuated by anyone with an ulterior motive and a lack of ethics. And scams aren't...
As they traveled home from Texas on Christmas Eve this year, one Abrazo couple smiled at the tiny answer to their prayers for adoption in the rearview mirror. Excited as they were to get home, though, they'd found leaving San Antonio to be far harder...
This is Elizabeth, Abrazo's director, with some thoughts on sharenting, adoption, and child exploitation. These are my own opinions, and I'm thinking aloud here, so bear with me, y'all... Granted, this is hardly an uplifting or inspirational blog topic during National...
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