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Adoption Nation: Revised and Updated

May 12, 2011

It was almost ten years ago that Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America was published. Adam Pertman, author and executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Adoption Institute, felt enough had changed in adoption to warrant a revised and updated edition.
I have the first edition of Adoption Nation. I found it informative, [...]

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Advocacy: Mentoring

November 23, 2010

I believe the message for this year’s National Adoption Month, “You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent,” is spot-on. While the process to be approved to adopt a child is nothing short of intrusive it is necessary for the well-being and safety of the child. The purpose of the “vetting” process is [...]

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National Adoption Month: A Time for Awareness

November 8, 2010

November used to be the break between a busy fall and even busier holiday season, the month when Mother Nature hadn’t made up her mind about what she had in store for the near future. Was she going to tease a little bit more out of summer or inflict winter early? November was about less daylight, [...]

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Please Take Your Rose-Colored Glasses Off

April 29, 2010

You probably don’t want to hear this because it is an uncomfortable truth.
While there are many well-adjusted adults who were adopted, there are also some angry, ticked-off adults who were adopted. And they’re busy venting their feelings in the cyber world: angry they were adopted, raised in a white family/community, saw themselves as white, had difficulty adjusting to [...]

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Gotcha Day

April 12, 2010

Family Day, Forever Family Day, Adoption Day. There are probably other names for the day that commemorates the day your child joined your family.
You may or may not celebrate such a day. And if you do, what does this day mean to your child? Does it mark the day they became separated from their biological identity?
I ask because [...]

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