Adoptive Families Blog
Adoption Fun Facts: 6 Things You Might Not Know About Adoption
If you have considered what it would be like to be an adoptive parent, there are likely many things running through your mind. What will the adoption process be like? What child will join our family? What kind of personality will the child have? There are many...
We Asked Lifetime’s Staff: What’s Your Favorite Adoption Memory?
The adoption professionals at Lifetime Adoption have been helping birth parents and adoptive families come together for over 30 years. In that time, we've shared some pretty amazing and inspiring adoption stories. And we love it when you read, comment on, and repost...
How Closed Adoption Impacted Birth Mothers and Adoptees
Before open adoption gained popularity in the 1980s, there was another adoption experience known as closed adoption. Geared towards protecting the rights of adoptive parents, closed adoption has been deeply criticized for not adequately taking into account the...
National Adoption Month and What It Means for All of Us
November is National Adoption Month! This is a special time set aside during the year to help educate people about the loving choice of adoption through various programs, events, and activities. When did National Adoption Month begin? In 1984, President Ronald Reagan...
How to Support Your Wife During the Adoption Wait
Often, we find that women lead the way in the adoption journey, making that initial phone call to Lifetime, ensuring all the required paperwork is turned in, creating their adoption profile, and so on. They're the ones doing the research and asking all the essential...
Lifetime Adoptive Couple’s Story Featured on Love What Matters
Over here at Lifetime, we love to read (and share!) heartwarming adoption stories. So we were thrilled to see one of our adoptive families featured on the website Love What Matters! Florida adoptive couple Stephen and Shasta's adoption story is certainly a...
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
Losing a pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences to endure, and it's one that many of our hopeful adoptive parents are familiar with. The Mayo Clinic estimates that around 10 to 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, but that the actual rate is probably...
Adoption Stories Then and Now – Seth and Mary
For many Christians, adoption is a virtuous path that heeds God’s call to care for the orphans. As James 1:27 says, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress...” Adoption is a call to...
The Bottom Line About Being Picked by a Birth Mother
Melissa perched on the edge of her chair, with a cup of hot coffee in her hands. She grabbed her phone and started to eagerly browse her adoption agency's website, something that she did every morning before work. As she did, Melissa began to feel defeated....
The Benefits of Therapy During Your Adoption Journey
The days after you decide to adopt a child can be some of the most exciting. You anticipate the baby you will soon be able to hold, a new son or daughter to love. You have a lot to look forward to! But for some hopeful adoptive parents, the days begin to drag....
