With awareness and planning, the adoption journey can be one that promotes growth, blessings, and healing for all involved.
Adoption
Family secrets can destroy the love and trust the family has fought so hard to build.
The adoption journey is resplendent with unforeseen detours, mountaintop experiences, formidable challenges — and magnificent views of God’s grace all along the way. Without preparation, this journey can be more than challenging. With awareness and planning, the journey can be one that promotes growth, blessings and healing for all involved. Here are a few things …
Four compelling reasons to tell your children the story of their adoption
Appreciate the precious gift of parenthood granted to you by your child’s birth family by embracing them through the love of Jesus Christ.
The most successful adoptive families are those who know they need support and know how to draw upon every resource available.
Understanding the reasons for your child’s behavior and responses is important, but the truth is that some adoptive parents may never know the full extent of their child’s underlying problems for a number of reasons.
Why children who have been adopted need to know their story — and how to tell it
It’s essential for families to develop the ability to cope with the stress that adoption can place on parents and kids.
The respect you show for each birth parent’s intrinsic value and humanity will boost your child’s own self-respect.
How adoptive parents can sensativley share their child’s adoption story with them.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help when needed, and don’t be frozen in your fears of what others will think or say.
Requests for visits with the child by birth families are on the rise.
In our well-connected world, it is more likely than ever that your child will now, or someday in the future, have contact or relationships with the people who brought him into this world.
Children who are adopted when they’re older or who have more complicated histories are not likely to respond well to some traditional discipline methods.
The beautiful truth for adoptive parents is that God has placed children in their families for healing and redemption.
After parents adopt a child, it’s important for their new transracial or transcultural family to help the new family member feel at home. Here’s how.
Learn how one mother experienced the joys and sorrows of bonding with her adopted daughter.
These special memory albums can help your adopted child piece together the past.
People often want to talk about adoption. Unfortunately, they sometimes don’t know how.