Guest blogger from a new case manager Airports were a mystery for the first birth mother I assisted in my role as a new case manager. This remarkable woman had…
"Adoption wasn't the first option I thought of," Ellie* looked up from inspecting her long, beautifully kept fingernails. She smiled slightly, her makeup less polished than in days past. Having…
Ellie* momentarily ceased wringing her hands to inte rcept her son's playful trot. Embracing her two-year-old tightly, he endured the hug before scampering off to retrieve a bright red fire…
“I was terrified many times,”Rachel, a birth mother, laughed quietly as she recounted the terrifying moments she faced over the past year. “Don’t stop because of your fear. It may…
What Do You Look for in Parents to Raise Your Child? When evaluating potential adoptive parents for an open adoption, there are several qualities and characteristics you should look for.…
You know that iconic Stanford experiment that supposedly measured childhood willpower by telling the test subjects how eating the marshmallow was okay? BUT if they waited twenty minutes without eating…
You may have reasons to have considered “giving up my baby.” We HATE the phrase, “give up my baby.” Giving up sounds like defeat. Giving up a baby sounds like…