Growing Intentional Families Together Blog
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Admitting Others into Your Post-adoption Life
Anyone who will be involved in your post-adoption life must be a fully enrolled part of your team. (This does NOT mean...
Both/And Parenting, Making Healthy Decisions
In our blogs we focus on the essential need for a Both/And attitude in adoptive families. Both birth and adoptive...
The Burnishing Reality of Trauma: Life as an Adoptive Family
Readers of this blog demonstrate intentionality in their parenting and an interest in enlarging their parental skill...
Positive Parenting–Focusing on Leadership Not Fear
Parenting can be very rewarding; it can also bring us to our knees, leaving us overwhelmed, frightened and desperate....
Names, Adoption and Identity
Identity formation in adoption is a complicated process and we have explored it from many angles recently. In last...
The Value of Homeland Visits
Sally Ankerfelt, one of the co-founders of GIFT Family Services recently returned from a homeland trip to the...
Birth Day: A Study in Contrasts
I've mentioned earlier this year that our first grandchild will be born any day. I've been caught up in the tidal wave...
On Becoming Me: An Adoption Attuned Perspective
Growing Intentional Families Together coach, Gayle Swift writes a blog, "Writing to Connect.," which reviews...
Marriage Equality, Adoptive Families and Adoptee Identity
The recent Supreme Court decision has repercussions in the adoption universe. In states that have required and/or...
A Fruit Salad Family Tree
Growing Intentional Families Together chose the tree as our logo because it offers an apt and frequently-used metaphor...
