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How to Support Your Child’s Culture
Adoptive parents have a big responsibility: welcome a child into their home and help them grow into the best, most whole, version of themselves. A big part of this can involve a cultural connection. It is vital to raise your child in a way that honors their cultural...
Getting the Entire Family Involved in Welcoming Your New Child
Congratulations on your adoption journey! Adopting a child and welcoming a new person into your family is such an exciting time! It’s important to make sure that you’ve talked to the entire family about making sure the child feels welcome. The support and active...
Why Culture is Important
It’s so exciting to adopt a child. Oftentimes adoptive parents get so excited about finally becoming a parent that they don’t necessarily care (or even think much) about where they could be coming from. While it’s easy to get caught in this kind of thought process, I...
Bonding with Your Adopted Child Through Support
It’s extremely important to create a bond with any child. After all, bonding with your child can help to create a strong emotional attachment and help them grow into healthy adults. Sometimes, it can be stressful (or even scary) to think about bonding with your...
Celebrating Birthdays as a Birth Parent
When you decide to go the adoption route with your pregnancy, worrying about losing contact or never knowing what happens with your child after birth can be easy. Fortunately, with open adoption and modern technology, you can stay in contact with your child and their...
Open vs. Closed Adoptions
Once you've decided to go the adoption route as a birth mother, it's essential to make sure you're making an adoption plan that's customized to your needs. One of the things you should consider when making an adoption plan is how open you want your adoption. There may...
Empowerment for Pregnant Women
As a pregnant woman, you should feel empowered in your decisions. You have many choices, and we want to support you through any of them. As a birth mother, you should be free to make your own choice and explore all your options. One option is open adoption. Adoption...
How to Manage Stress During the Adoption Process
When you're amidst the adoption process, your stress levels may rise. Maybe you notice that things are getting to you that you never used to, or you feel more anxious as the days progress. Either way, you're not the only one that experiences this. It's actually fairly...
How to Tell Your Parents You’re Pregnant
We understand how hard it can be for teens to find out they're pregnant. There can be a lot of confusion surrounding the situation, as well as fear and shock. Something that's very common, though, is the question of how to tell your parents that you're pregnant. Even...
Reconnecting with Your Distressed Child
Typically when a child is experiencing some negative emotion, be it pain, fear, sadness, or something else, they go to a parent. Under normal circumstances, your parents are supposed to make you feel loved and protected. The fastest and safest solution for a...
