For the adoptee who wonders what not being adopted might've been like, know this: it's normal. Many adoptees wonder how it would've been, to not have been adopted. After all, those with divorced parents wonder what having parents who stayed together would've been...
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 than they might...
If you're wondering how you can best support your adoption agency this holiday season, here are some ideas. This may not be relevant if you support one of those mega-agencies with million dollar endowments, of course. But for smaller nonprofits like Abrazo, the best...
When you get pregnant in college, life can suddenly feel like a whole different ballgame. Get pregnant in high school, and everybody says you're just a teenager who didn't know better. Come up pregnant in college, but suddenly, folks act like you're someone who should...
Dear Adoptee: permit us to offer a bit of insight about the birthparent you never knew. The truth is you've always known her/him/them, even if you've never met. Why? Because their cells live on in you. And you still know what her heartbeat sounded like from the...
Dear Birthmother: if you feel conflicted about having another pregnancy after placing or you're dealing with secondary infertility after placing, take note. You have every right to have another child in the future. You are entitled to parent after having placed. (And...
Let's be honest: adopting isn't easy. (Nor should it be.) This weekend, a group of adopting parents from across the USA are traveling to San Antonio. They're coming here for Abrazo's very last Parents of Tomorrow weekend of this decade. In order to qualify, they've...
"It's just a piece of paper," she told herself, as she sat in her hospital bed, contemplating the legal document that would change everything forever. Three days ago, she'd delivered the result of an unplanned pregnancy that happened nine months earlier. She'd been a...
If you're exploring how to get a homestudy done, this is a good place to get started. Ruben and Hannah have finished infertility treatments and decided to adopt. They'd assumed that just filling out an adoption agency application would be enough? But then they learn...
"Can I get paid for giving a baby up for adoption?" she asked. She really wasn't asking out of greed. She was in a bad spot, needed to feed her kids and had another baby on the way. "I have a friend who said she'd bought a used car with the money someone gave her for...
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