A name is important because it carries memory and meaning — it holds identity. Hopeful adoptive parents sometimes...
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Can a Birth Father Get Updates on His Child?
Lifetime encourages birth fathers to get involved in their child's adoption from the start. You can be a part of the...
Will I Love My Adopted Child? Bonding With an Adopted Child
Sometimes hopeful parents wonder if raising a child through adoption would be "the same" as raising a child they gave...
How Closed Adoption Impacts Birth Mothers and Adoptees
Before open adoption gained popularity in the 1980s, there was another adoption experience known as closed adoption....
Contact With Birth Parents After Adoption
Modern open adoption has many benefits for everyone in the adoption triad. For example, prior to the adoption,...
How Does Open Adoption Work When the Child Turns 18?
It's November, which means we're celebrating National Adoption Awareness Month! In recognition of this special month,...
How to Encourage Successful Open Adoption Stories
When most people think of adoption, they imagine adoptions of the past when closed adoption was the norm. Society's...
Adoption Video from a Birth Mom to Her Baby Has Gone Viral!
In an emotional adoption video that's since gone viral, birth mother Hannah explains to her newly-born son that...
Positive Effects of Adoption on the Child
Adoption comes with many amazing benefits not only for the birth parents and adoptive couple but for the kids, too....