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Negative Behavior: A Strategy for Tranferring Pain onto Parents
A recent article written by the Adoption Council of Ontario focused on the concept of inducement which they define as...
Adoptees Are Not Broken
Adoptees are not broken but they are profoundly influenced by their adoption. Shaped, not defeated, or doomed by it....
Family Story Telling: Have I told you about the Time I …
Umenta.com reported on recent research by Dr. Marshall Duke of Emory University indicates that children benefit from...
Difficult Conversations in Adoptive Families: Thirteen Tips
Starting a difficult conversation can be challenging whether it is with a spouse, friend co-worker, stranger or family...
The Catch-22 of a Forever Family Twenty-nine Years after Placement
Adoption is, at its essence, about creating loving bonds built by intention instead of biology. Often we refer to...
The Fruits of Guilt and Shame
There is a quote from Allegiant by Veronica Roth that has intrigued me since I read it. It states that, "Since I was...
Rules—Golden and Otherwise
As parents, we appreciate the structure that rules bring to families. Sound rules establish firm, clear boundaries....
Attention Shapes Who Children Become
Adoptive parents face a unique challenge: distinguishing our fantasies for our children from the reality of the person whom they genuinely can and want to be. Adult adoptees advise, “Let go of the me you wish we could be. Love the unique and human me before you.”
Mother, Mommy, Mom, Mum–the Many Faces of Motherhood in Adoption
Mother's Day is a particularly poignant one for adoptive moms. (It goes without saying, that it is a special and...
The Scarlet Letter, A is for Adoption and the Art of Possibility
In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of adultery and unwed motherhood, Hester Prynne was...
