Word: adoptionism
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Second, both sides must work to streamline the system for adoption in the United States. There are families who have the courage and resources, financial and emotional, to open their homes to the children others do not want. We should work to encourage these families at every step of the...
"When they start asking that," the adoption therapist said, "you can start looking."
Several developments have helped boost the popularity of single motherhood. With better-paying jobs and greater career opportunities, more women can afford it. Advances in the technology of conception, such as in-vitro fertilization, have made it much more feasible, even in the later childbearing years. Meanwhile, adoption by single...
Shortly after the adoption agency called her on Christmas Eve 1996 with news that a baby girl had just arrived, Brennetta had a quick dose of reality. Imani-Brenae, 17 days old when Brennetta adopted her, woke up screaming every two hours all night long. "I thought, Oh, my God...
We started looking. We asked the agency that had arranged the adoption, Friends of Children of Various Nations, to begin a search. Within six months our caseworker, Kim Matsunaga, told us they had found the birth mother but she was highly reluctant to meet us. She had never told anyone...