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Types of Adoption Part One: Domestic Infant Adoption

There are three main types of adoption: domestic U.S. infant adoption, adoption from foster care/state welfare agencies, and international adoption. Domestic infant adoptions, in many states, may occur in one of two ways: through an adoption agency, or privately arranged by a lawyer. One element these adoptions usually share is that the birthparent(s) have some say in who will parent their child. Many also include some degree of “openness”—that is, birth and adoptive parents have some information about each other, identifying or not, and usually plan for some form of ongoing contact, whether directly or through letters relayed by an … Continue reading →

Attachment Parenting of Adopted Children.

It’s important as a parent to recognize the developmental milestones and expectations we have for our children. Most parents understand it takes awhile for a newborn baby to learn how to walk and talk so no one is worried when a newborn doesn’t get up and walk. That would be a silly expectation and most people understand that it is not a developmental milestone for a newborn to walk. Most people understand that walking on average happens around the age of one-year-old. The stages of Adoption have certain developmental milestones as well, however most people don’t understand what these milestones … Continue reading →

Raising an Adopted Child: Part #1

My little boy Jeremiah. Parenting in general can be stressful. As parents we often get different advice and information from grandparents, doctors and teachers. It can be confusing enough to just be an ordinary mom and dad, but add to this the fact we are adoptive parents and our questions and concerns are compounded. This series of blog entries will be entitled: Raising an Adopted Child, and will cover some of the research and information known about children who grow up adopted. Research shows that all children have similar levels of understanding about adoption at roughly the same age whether … Continue reading →