Once I knew that it was possible to adopt a child with HIV, my questions came in a downpour. Fortunately for me, my friend Emily is a nurse practitioner who specializes in HIV, so she became the recipient of my long phone calls. What I learned surprised me: I feared that we might adopt an HIV+ child,...

Two Fridays ago, as I dropped off yet another immigration packet update at our agency, I stumbled into an adoption placement. The director of my agency and I shared smiles during the paperwork hand-off as a young couple became parents for the first time, just a few feet from me. During my brief, two-minute...

Depending on the employment situation of you and your spouse, you may not be parents for very long before it is time to find child care for your newly placed/adopted child. While the last thing you may want to do while cuddling your child and welcoming him home is think about leaving him, daycare is...

One area of open adoption people are most curious about is the area of contact–contact, specifically with my children’s birthmother. Open adoption doesn’t always mean frequent contact, in person contact or easy access to the birth or the adoptive family. Open adoption simply means...

Adoption is sometimes called a “paper pregnancy”, due to the lack of a visible baby bump on the mama-to-be, and due to the amount of forms required to proceed with an adoption. Procedures for each agency vary a bit, but every potential adoptive family in the US must go through a home study...

That is a question I get a lot-how on earth did we ever decide on what kind of adoption to pursue? For us, when we began pursuing adoption, we were truly complete novices. I hadn’t met anyone who’d adopted in recent years, didn’t really know of any local agencies, or what the process...