Pros and Cons of Adopting More Than One Child at a Time
Each family must look at themselves and their resources in making the decision. If cost savings is your primary reason, most families I interviewed did not save much money by adopting two at once. You can take the adoption tax credit for both, but depending on how much taxes you pay, you may not be […]
Adopting from Ethiopia and Other African Countries
Have questions on adopting from Ethiopia or other African Countries? View this short clip from Creating a Family website to learn a little about international adoption. More information can be gathered by calling one of our locations or by attending an informational meeting in our of locations. View the video here.
Dark Matter of Love
Movie presentation of The Dark Matter of Love An eleven year old Russian girl learns to love her adoptive American family through a scientific intervention. The film tells the story of three of the last Russian children, Masha (11) and Marcel and Vadim (5), able to be adopted into an American family before Russian President Vladimir […]
Fun/Inspirational Reads
Try these suggested books for adults while on your journey to adoption. Click here
Preparing Children in Orphanages for Adoption
Adoptive parents anticipate the adoption of a child with joy and a great deal of planning. By the time they travel to pick up their child, they have been reading about, dreaming about, and talking about this event for at least a year and sometimes much longer. Read More
Foreign Couples Heading to America for Surrogate Pregnancies
At home in Lisbon, a gay couple invited friends over to a birthday celebration, and at the end of the evening shared a surprise — an ultrasound image of their baby, moving around in the belly of a woman in Pennsylvania being paid to carry their child. “Everyone was shocked, and asked everything about how we […]
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 […]
The Three Routes to Adoption
Ever wonder what route to adoption is best for you? Should you adopt an infant? What about International adoption? Maybe Foster Care? Check out these overviews of the 3 routes to see which is right for you: The 3 routes to adoption
A Lost Boy Finds His Calling
The Incredible Story of a Romanian Orphan –Once Hidden from the World, Now Determined to Change it. Izidor Ruckel Quotes from Romania, Creating a DocumentarySaturday March 1, 2014 2:00-4:00pmDorothy Goff Recital Hall, Shattuck Music CenterCarroll University Waukesha, WI For more information on the event, click here For more information on Izidor, click here