When your family welcomes a new foster child or a relative child for kinship care, it’s critical to recognize that this child is experiencing grief and loss. Regardless of how
Setting Yourself Up for a Successful Co-Parent Relationship in Foster Care
It goes by many different names: co-parenting, shared parenting, partnership parenting. Whatever it’s called where you are fostering, one of your tasks is to figure out how to co-parent with
Explaining Prenatal Exposure to Your Child
Are you raising an adopted, foster, or kinship child who was exposed to drugs or alcohol while their birth mother was pregnant? Many of us parenting kids with prenatal substance
10 Tips to Help You Maximize the Adoption Tax Credit
The tax deadline for most Americans is quickly approaching. Unless you live in a state impacted by severe weather, like California, Alabama, or Georgia, your deadline to file 2022 taxes
Adoption Tax Credit Guide 2022
What a year it has been! Supply chain issues, skyrocketing gas prices, and economic turmoil have left many of us feeling like the pandemic-era terms “strange and unprecedented” are taking
Prenatal Exposure – Part 2: Parenting Tweens and Teens
What is Prenatal Exposure? While a mother is pregnant, using drugs or drinking alcohol of any kind can cause malformations in a developing baby. It’s difficult to separate the effects
Prenatal Exposure – Part 1: Parenting Babies through Elementary Ages
In the adoptive, foster, and kinship community, there’s often a wide range of what parents know about the child’s birth parents. Frequently, information about the birth mother’s prenatal care can
5 Tips to Help Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
There are many factors that lead to grandparents raising grandchildren. There are just as many factors that make this a hard row to hoe at this stage of your life.
Celebrating the Holidays In Foster Care: As Told By A Former Foster Youth
Children in foster care need a warm safe place to land, no matter the time of year they come into care, but the holidays can be especially painful and lonely
Are You Ready for Transracial Adoptive Parenting?
Parenting an adopted child requires extra attention to issues you might not need when raising biological children. Additional layers exist when you are preparing to adopt a child of another
