Posts Tagged ‘Foster Care’

Were they Orphans? Does it Really Matter Graff?

Save the Children and Unicef both believe that children are better off in their home countries. Save the Children has gone so far as to say that international adoption can actually “exacerbate the problem it hopes to solve…the very existence of orphanages encourages poor parents to abandon...

February 25th, 2010 | Advocate, Domestic, Feature, Health | Read More

101 Best Adoption, Loss and Infertility Blogs

Back in 2008 when I wrote at A Child Chosen, I created a list that has since become one of my most popular posts. The Best of the Best: Top 50 Adoption Blogs has continued to circulate the web since I left b5media but some of those blogs have gone by the wayside and some have done so well the writers...

February 4th, 2010 | Carnival, Feature | Read More

Sleep Tight: A Night at the Foster Home

I often forget we work at an orphanage. After all, we call it a foster home. And, if you go there during the daytime hours, the place is buzzing with so much activity that one has no time to think about the fact that all of the children are orphans. Compared to most orphanages, the place is paradise!...

January 28th, 2010 | Feature | Read More

When a child may have to leave

Leaving? Maybe… The world simply wants to pretend this doesn’t happen. Even people in the adoption community can be harsh toward a family that needs out of home placement. Permanently, it is called disruption or dissolution and comes with insane amounts of heartbreak for every member of the...

December 18th, 2009 | Attachment | Read More

Remembering Jeremiah

Sunday I opened the newspaper to another heart breaking story. Another story of another child killed either intentionally or accidentally at a home where the Department of Child Services has already been asked to become involved. A child who lives in a home where the police have been routinely called...

November 27th, 2009 | Feature, Foster Care | Read More

The Orphan Next Door

Two steps and a knock from my front door, and I’m in an orphanage. We don’t call it an orphanage, but a rose by any other name is still a rose. No matter what we call it, Mommy and Daddy don’t come home at night. She’s eight. Sometime in February 2009, she lost everything. ...

November 26th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

13 Things for which to be Thankful

I am humbled by the experience that so many of you have with adoption, be it from any perspective. My experience is relatively new, but comes with such a cluster of emotions. Today, I am choosing to set aside the emotions on which I often dwell, and focus on the immense joy that (foster) adoption...

November 2nd, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Details to Ponder

Though many are familiar with some basic details of adoption and foster care, it can be hard to find information on the typical foster adoption. The reason: there is no typical foster adoption. Every state has so many different regulations and every child will come with a different story to work through....

October 11th, 2009 | Feature, adoption process | Read More

The Phone Call that Changed My Life

One year ago, this week, I got THE phone call. I had no idea this was the phone call that would change my life forever! My husband and I had started our foster care training and paperwork in June. We had the whole “hurry up and wait” thing going on! We rushed through to get all of our ducks in...

September 21st, 2009 | Feature, Foster Care, adoption process | Read More

Why We Chose Foster Adoption

I was sitting in the big massage chair yesterday at the nail salon, feet submerged in hot, bubbling water, making small-talk, while my (foster) daughter and my mom played in the waiting area. The pedicurist and I chatted about everything from her experience with working at various nail salons to her...

September 1st, 2009 | Feature, Foster Care | Read More