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Home / Blog / Infant Adoption

Research Request | Adoptees and Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing

January 15, 2019 by Staff Contributor

A woman in her 20s looks at a model of a DNA strand.

Heewon Lee, a Korean adoptee and genetic counseling graduate student at the University of Minnesota, is recruiting participants for a research study about direct-to-consumer genetic testing (e.g.,

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Filed Under: Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News

14 Years Ago I Got “The Call”

January 7, 2019 by Guest Contributor

Catherine's son when he was around 1, wearing a tie-dye shirt.

On his birthday last week Tea (Sammy’s birthmom) texted to let me know she’d reached Sam to wish him a happy birthday. She said he told her he was “skating w/ a bunch of white ppl. Lol.” I wrote

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Infant Adoption, News

The Holidays When You’re Longing for a Baby Can Be So HARD

December 19, 2018 by Creating a Family

This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. Let's pause for just a moment to recognize that this season of joy is also a

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Filed Under: Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption

A Very Foster Christmas and an Adoptive New Year

November 11, 2018 by Staff Contributor

A picture of a street with holiday decorations and the words "A Very Foster Christmas and an Adoptive New Year, Dec 8 4 PM"

Joyful Noize Productions is putting together a show celebrating the foster/adoption community and YOU are the stars. They have an open call for story tellers who want to share their first-person

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Adoptive Family Stories, Birth Parent Reflections, Events, Foster Care, Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News

$1500 Adoption Grant Available for Home Study Approved Families

October 24, 2018 by Staff Contributor

A couple works on their application for a grant from Adoption is Love fund.

Adoption is Love Fund is still accepting applications for their grant. The $1,500 grant was created by an adoptive family hoping to help prospective adoptive parents with adoption expenses. Grants are

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Filed Under: Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News

Discovering a Different Kind of Love through Open Adoption

August 23, 2018 by Staff Contributor

Ben, Wendy, Augustin and his birth mother are smile while sitting in a living room.

“I decided to trust that a child was out there, waiting for us. Now, I whisper in his ears when we rock at night, ‘I’m so glad you’re here, but what took you so long?’” Wendy said of finally realizing

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Infant Adoption, News

Minneapolis Camp-Conference for Teen Adoptees

June 26, 2018 by Staff Contributor

A group of international adoptees at an Adopteen event huddle together with big smiles.

Registration is now open for the Adopteen Camp-Conference in Minneapolis, a five-day camp for teen adoptees, entirely run by adoptees! Since 2008, Adopteen has worked to bring the adoptee community

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Filed Under: Events, Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News

Feels Like Home | A Birth Mother’s Story

May 1, 2018 by Guest Contributor

A picture of Adrienne with her arm draped over her daughter Nora at the age of 4. They both smile at the camera.

From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I knew I was going to do adoption. But the path was not as straight-forward as I first expected. My daughter’s birth father was involved and supportive

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Filed Under: Birth Parent Reflections, Infant Adoption, News

Letter to My Mother

April 19, 2018 by Guest Contributor

A woman's hand holding a pencil to a notebook as she is about to start writing a letter to her birth mother.

Dear Mother, Writing “Dear Mother” seems so formal, yet I never met you so I can’t call you “mom.” I don’t even know if you would have wanted me to call you “mom.” Let alone if I would have been

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Infant Adoption, News, Reunion

Participate in Columbia University Research

January 21, 2018 by Staff Contributor

Two school aged children of Latinx descent sit in front of a computer.

Columbia University received a large federal grant and are eager to find participants for three studies. Two of the studies require families to go to their lab in New York and a third study requires a

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Filed Under: Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News

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