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Shine the Light
The joy of music--and two dedicated parents--bring strength and purpose to a young girl with Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Of Love and Losses: Adopting the Older Child
My husband, Mark, and I adopted JinJin and MeiMei when they were five years old. What is it like to adopt an older child? What are the risks, and what are the rewards?
A Tale of Three Adoptions
We had adopted our children at birth, but I no longer even thought of them as adopted. I don't believe they did either. They were simply our children.
Emma, Dear Baby
Foster mothers take care of babies under the proposition that those babies should leave them. This is impossible without considerable love.
Mother to Both
When we love and nurture the children under our care with a total commitment, we are filling the role of a mother.
Exercising the Heart
Most will go to exceptional lengths to have children, but the resistance to adopt is still very real and may come from a huge fear of the unknown.
Wanting What I Have
The Buddhists note that the wanting mind is not skillful. "Why don’t you want what you have, and don’t want what you don’t have?"
A Special Gift: Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby
I had heard of women nursing adopted babies and hoped this would be possible for me. But how, without a pregnancy, was I to do this?
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Advice for head banging and self injury. posted by Alvenchrst, 03-01-2012 05:47:10 AM
Open adoption is killing me. :( posted by krisnic, 03-01-2012 12:03:22 AM
New to foster, let the q's begin! posted by Ziggy and Izzy, 02-28-2012 05:34:13 PM
Anyone know about adoptions from the Czech Republic? posted by OTMomma, 02-27-2012 01:49:07 AM