"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...
"How to put a baby up for adoption" was what she searched before calling Abrazo the first time. It wasn't the first time she'd thought about it. But it was the first time she actually looked into how to put a baby up for adoption. The first time she got pregnant she...
Can we talk about how not to do adoption? There's plenty of information about how to do adoption, but let's look at how not to do adoption, because lately, it seems that's not discussed widely enough. We get it: adoption is not a cheap pursuit. The adoption process...
"We do baby adoptions at Abrazo," our staff patiently reminds confused callers from all across the state, every week. (Our Google Adwords account is supposed to emphasize adoptions at Abrazo and screen out negative keywords like "pet adoption" or "how to adopt a...
For adopted kids who wonder: we know you may have questions about your adoption. That's healthy. (And it's normal for adopted kids who wonder about adoption to sometimes ponder who to ask about their adoption, too?) At Abrazo, we try to make sure that every kid that...
Trashing adoptive parents seems to have become social media's favorite indoor sport, lately. Anti-adoption websites label hopeful adopters as "adoptoraptors" and repost their profiles with vicious commentary rebuking them for seeking to adopt at all. Disgruntled adult...
Here's Abrazo's list of the Nine Cardinal Sins in Adoption. There are different ways to excel at or fail in adoption, of course. But if you want to do the sort of adoption that makes Abrazo especially proud of you and which helps you sleep well at night, then here are...
Adoption time either seems to run maddeningly slowly, or frustratingly fast. (And there's typically little or nothing in between.) It's hard to explain to those who have never been part of the adoption process. But anyone whose life has been touched by adoption can...
Can we talk about adoption and alienation, for just a moment? "Alienation" is the act of isolating those who should belong. This topic deserves a far lengthier discussion. Yet it will hardly draw the public's attention even momentarily-- serious as it is. President...
There's a fine line in open adoption. Anybody involved needs to know this, upfront. In Texas, the law says there's no legal difference between an open adoption and any other adoption. For a baby or child to be free to be adopted, the first parents must surrender all...
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