Discounted Educational Courses
Each year, November is recognized as National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM). NAM draws attention to the urgent need for permanent families for the more than 102,000 children and youth waiting for adoption. To help promote this important message, Adoption Learning Partners offering several of their most popular and educational adoption resources to professionals, parents, adopted individuals, and the […]
Is Embryo Adoption Right for Me?
In vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments often result in the creation of extra emb ryos, which are generally frozen. The couple may later decide to donate any unused embryos to other couples or individuals experiencing infertility. Choosing embryo donation allows intended parents to carry a pregnancy to term and give birth to their child. […]
Fun/Inspirational Reads
Try these suggested books for adults while on your journey to adoption. Click here
Not the Life I Expected: Parenting a Child With Attachment Disorder
Most of us didn’t go into adoption expecting to parent a child with significant attachment issues or Reactive Attachment Disorder. Even if we adopted an older child who experienced abuse or neglect, or a child from foster care, or a child from one of the many understaffed and underfunded orphanages throughout the world, we didn’t […]
Should We Keep Our Promise of Anonymity Made to Birth Parents?
Most adult adoptees in the US don’t have access to their original birth certificates or names of their birth parents. For just a second, try to imagine what it would be like for something you really need or want to be sitting in a file somewhere, but you aren’t allowed to see it. It exists; […]
Parenting the Adopted Child in the Age of Social Networking
Watch this short 10 minute video on talking with children about adoption in this internet age. Click here
Webinar: Talking to Children born through Embryo Adoption
Join the Awareness Center for a webinar examining why it is vital for children to know about their unique conception and how parents can prepare themselves to share this important information with children of all ages. August 23rd To register, click here
Adoption Tips
Your Adoption Journey Awaits: 10 Tips to Help you Get Started by Natasha Congratulations! You’ve decided to adopt! This is your time to be excited! However, if you’ve started your adoption research, it’s possible you are already overwhelmed. I remember googling “adoption agencies” for the first time and almost crying when the results … Continue reading →
How Long Should You Try Infertility Treatment Before Stopping?
How much time and money did you spend on fertility treatments before you decided to stop? When To Call It Quits With Infertility Treatment Nothing is more personal than how you build your family! It involves issues as far ranging as your childhood dreams and your ideas of family, and includes the painfully mundane issue […]
A Birth mother seeks advice
Navigating the arena of open adoption can be difficult for all sides of the adoption triad. How much contact is good? Will it confuse the child? How do you explain the relationship of everyone involved? These are just some of the questions that adoptive parents and birth parents have regarding open adoption. There are many […]