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3 Crucial Questions Every Expectant Parent Should Ask Their Adoption Professional

Adoption is a profound and life-changing journey, full of confusion, anticipation, and often, a great deal of uncertainty. As an expectant parent, choosing the right adoption professional is a pivotal step. You want to ensure that you’re working with someone who not only understands the legal complexities of adoption but also provides the support and […]

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Managing the Adoption Wait During the Holidays

The holidays can be stressful enough, but can be especially hard for parents waiting to adopt a baby.

For many among us, including those waiting and hoping to become parents, the holiday season does not lead to automatic cheer, joy or peace. The season, with its emphasis on children and family, can bring loneliness and heartache to many in the midst of an adoption journey.

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Who Gets to Name an Adopted Child?

Naming a baby is so elemental and so often the first mark of parenthood—of course people have really big feelings about it.

At Adoption Connection’s Preparation for Adoption workshops, few topics set people wanting to be parents more on edge than the naming question…

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The Value of Open Communication and Flexibility During and After Delivery

Everything is going smoothly. The birth family and adoptive family are communicating about the birth, ongoing contact, and even baby names! And then suddenly there’s an unintended hiccup, tears are shed by both families, and there is confusion and hurt feelings

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The Adoption Wait

You’ve written out your answers to a thousand intrusive questions during your adoption homestudy. You’ve submitted your fingerprints, seen your doctor, put up the extra smoke detectors, and swept up all the dust bunnies in a panic before the homestudy caseworker arrives.

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Becoming a Family

November is National Adoption Month. Let’s all take a few minutes to educate ourselves better about adoption.

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Sam’s Sister: An Adoption Book for Both Kids and Adults

Adoptive families raising small children right now are fortunate to have access to a wide variety of children’s books about adoption. Book’s such as A Mother for Choco, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born and A Tale of Two Daddies, as well as many others

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Text Messaging As First Adoption Contact

Your Adoption Parent Profile is done, and you’ve decided to include a personal cell phone number so that an expectant mother can call you directly. Instead of getting a phone call, you hear a “ping” on your phone and receive a text message: “Hi! Are you still looking for a baby?”

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The Adoption Entrustment Ceremony

Creating meaningful ritual in open adoption

Rituals have always been used to signify a change or rite of passage, or to mark a transition in the life of a person or community. Although they are often interwoven with religious traditions, rituals can be anything that symbolizes and celebrates a life change.

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Fostering the Adoption Connection with the Help of Mediation

In open adoption in California, birth parents and adopting parents have an opportunity to create a future contact agreement that will define the type of contact that the birth parents will have with their child and the adopting parents.

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3 Crucial Questions Every Expectant Parent Should Ask Their Adoption Professional

Managing the Adoption Wait During the Holidays

Who Gets to Name an Adopted Child?

The Value of Open Communication and Flexibility During and After Delivery

The Adoption Wait

Becoming a Family

Sam’s Sister: An Adoption Book for Both Kids and Adults

Text Messaging As First Adoption Contact

The Adoption Entrustment Ceremony

Fostering the Adoption Connection with the Help of Mediation

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1710 Scott St. P.O. Box 159004 San Francisco, CA 94115

Pregnant?

Call 800-972-9225 or Text 415-355-4636

Want to Adopt?

Call 415-359-2494

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1710 Scott St.
P.O. Box 159004
San Francisco, CA 94115

Call 800-972-9225
or Text 415-355-4636

1710 Scott St.
P.O. Box 159004
San Francisco, CA 94115