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Adopted Child: “You Don’t Understand How It Feels to Be Abandoned”
I heard a sad story about a teenage adoptee who is having a hard time coming to grips with having been abandoned as a child. Unfortunately, that is the history of many adopted children, particularly...
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What Do Adoptive Parents and Adopted Teenagers Have in Common
Many teenagers were adopted as infants and might be the only adopted child in the family. Therefore, they wouldn’t have a clue what their parents went through so many years ago to adopt. Danea...
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Do Breastfed Babies Have Higher IQs
A new study found that children who were exclusively breastfed for at least the first three months of life scored about six points higher on IQ tests at six years old then those who were bottle fed or...
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My Adopted Child Wants to Live with Birthparent
All children go through emotional growth periods where they seem to have a deeper understanding of the world around them and their place in it. You can see it when your toddler begins to feel safe in...
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Post Adoption Depression Syndrome (PADS)
This is a very difficult post for me to write. I’ve felt strongly inclined to share my experiences with this topic, but at the same time, that doesn’t make it any easier for me to say the words. After...
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On Anti-Adoption Rhetoric…
Let me be the first to say that I believe in the freedom of speech wholeheartedly. If I don’t agree with your stance on something or you personally don’t subscribe to my theories on insert-topic-here,...
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A Creative Solution
A good friend of mine, Jessica, adopted a child from China about ten years ago. When Jessica’s daughter was around four, she exhibited a lot of anxiety whenever Jessica left the house. Jessica would...
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Adoption + Unknown = Fear
The last few weeks have been bubbling in the adoption community. I head up a lot of discussion forums and am a regular reader/participant in a lot of others. Ever since the horrific and tragic shooting...
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Other People Just Don’t Relate
“I know how a birthmother feels,” a man told me once. “My nephew and I were really close, but one day my brother told me he got a new job on the other side of the country and they would be moving. I...
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Handling Those Fears About Your Adopted Child
When an adopted child first comes into your home, the joy and excitement the little one brings is magical. There is nothing like that euphoria. You fall in love. However, when the child’s health or...
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Adoption Experiences… Tastes Like Chicken?
Craig is one of my better friends and stops by all the time. He stays well informed about everything happening with my family and we often talked freely about the goings-on in our life. So when my wife...
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“You ARE the Father!”
Maury Povich’s talk show focuses on what is apparently a TV staple nowadays – paternity testing. The usual story blatantly screams of loose morals, lax judgment, or both, and builds up to the...
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Relating to Other People’s Kids
Maybe years of failed adoption attempts have jaded me. I never attached much meaning to whether or not my future children would be genetically related to me or not. I just wanted the opportunity to...
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Feeling Abandoned
I often wonder if my kids do or will eventually feel abandoned. Many books and professionals have lead us to believe that some children who are adopted will feel a sense of abandonment through their...
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