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Reach With Them: One Foster Mom’s Story of Open Adoption

November 21, 2019 by Creating a Family

This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. November is National Adoption Month. To kick off this year’s campaign of awareness, we are delighted to share one foster mom’s personal perspective on open adoption with her children’s birth family. Through learning how to co-parent as a foster

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

Open Adoption With Addicted Birth Parents

November 2, 2019 by Creating a Family

A girl plays with her birth father on a swing. He has a drug addiction but still wants to maintain contact.

This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. There are no clear rules that always apply to navigate relationships with people who are actively addicted. It depends on so many factors. But Kate Cleary, Executive Director of Consortium for Children, who has negotiated many post-adoption openness agreements and

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

A True Teen Foster Care Adoption Story

October 8, 2019 by Creating a Family

A teen adopted from foster care smiles at the camera.

This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. We talk a lot about adopting an older child or teen from foster care, but what is the experience really like? We asked a mom who adopted a 16-year-old from foster care to share her real experience—both the good

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Filed Under: Foster Care, Foster Care Adoption, News, Parenting

Educated Wealthy Parents Have Problems in Adoption – Say What?!?

August 7, 2019 by Creating a Family

This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. In an interview on Creating a Family Radio Show Dr. Richard Barth, Dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, said something that startled me. “The more educated the parents and

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Filed Under: News, Parenting

9 Essential Things Adoptive Parents Must Do Before Their Child Turns 13

July 16, 2019 by Creating a Family

This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. The elementary school-age years are an important time for parents to lay the foundation for the potential turbulence of adolescents. What can parents do to help their children process adoption in the ages between 6 and 12? We’ve come

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Transracial & Transcultural Adoption: Preservation, Policy, and a Personal Perspective

May 7, 2019 by Staff Contributor

This article, written by Alexis Oberdorfer, MSW, Executive Director of CH/LSS, was originally published by National Council for Adoptable Children (NCFA) In 1948, white parents in Minnesota adopted a black child and were the first recorded transracial adoption in the United States. The following year, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes Pearl

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Adoptive Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, News, Parenting

Embracing and Teaching Advocacy as Parents of Children with Down Syndrome

March 19, 2019 by Guest Contributor

Jodi and Ted with their three children. Two were adopted and have Down Syndrome.

As parents to three amazing kids, we’ve found many things to be constant over the years: going to music festivals, a yearly trip to Duluth, nightly walks (when the weather permits), spending time with family, enjoying the lake, and finding any educational activities that we can do to embrace the many cultures in our family.

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, International Adoption, News, Parenting

Helping Adopted Children Cope With Grief and Loss

March 13, 2019 by Guest Contributor

This content was originally published by childwelfare.gov Many children in foster care have experienced traumatic separations and losses. The emotions elicited by these traumatic experiences are rooted in underlying grief, which may complicate their adjustment to the newly formed adoptive family unit. Children’s response to grief may vary, depending on their age and stage of

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Filed Under: News, Parenting

Join us for Fidgety Fairy Tales, The Mental Health Musicals

March 4, 2019 by Staff Contributor

Kids dressed up as well-known fairy tale characters for a mental health musical.

Come join us Monday, April 8 for Fidgety Fairy Tales This year Minnesota Association for for Children’s Mental Health joins us again in their 11th musical where familiar fairy tales are re-imagined to raise awareness about children’s mental health. With great music and gentle humor, this hour-long musical is fun for the whole family. This

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Filed Under: Education & Webinars, Events, Foster Care, Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News, Parenting

Tips for Blending Foster, Biological & Adopted Children

October 9, 2018 by Guest Contributor

This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. Blending a foster child with children already in the home is one of the biggest challenges many foster parents face. Regardless whether the kids already in the home are by birth or adoption, the addition of a new foster

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Filed Under: Foster Care, News, Parenting

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