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What Is Adoption?–A Book Review

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What is Adoption? In this book a young girl learns that her longtime friend was adopted. She wonders if she has other parents too, and if her friend can be “taken back” by his first parents. (This is apparently a more common fear among adopted children’s friends than I had realized; I’ve heard it more than once lately.) In the book Violet is able to ask her mother, then later her friend and her friend’s mother, about her questions. She learns that she does not have other parents, but some children are born to parents who wish them to have … Continue reading →

Book Review: Adoption Stories for Young Children

It can be hard to find books for young children that address adoption questions. Those that do usually talk about differences in appearance not affecting ability to love, or about a young animal finding a mother. Those few that do talk about adoption usually talk about how badly the adoptive parents wanted a baby. Only a very few address the birthmother and why the child was available for adoption. Adoption Stories for Young Children by adoption attorney Randall Hicks, fills this need. It is a book written for the very young child, illustrated with black and white photographs of real … Continue reading →

When Others Don’t Approve

No matter what you do in life, it seems like you encounter someone who does not approve of what you are doing. Adoption is no exception. It seems like everyone has an opinion and some of them aren’t very positive. We have been in the process of adoption for 9 months and while most of the people we have encountered have been very positive, we have also run into people who thought it was a bad idea. It is hard to know what to do or what to say when you encounter opposition. By the time you make the decision … Continue reading →