Becoming a Family
November is National Adoption Month. Let’s all take a few minutes to educate ourselves better about adoption.
Adoptive Parenting
Daniela’s Open Adoption Story
Although I find this very difficult to write, I understand just how many people making a decision about sharing their child in an open adoption may be helped. Let me please begin by saying that placing a baby for adoption is by no means an easy decision, or something you will come to terms with overnight
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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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Father’s Day Thank You
It seems just like yesterday that I met my son, Brett, for the first time in Las Vegas, Nevada. I remember holding him in my arms with his head in my hand. We looked into each other’s eyes for the longest time. I was trying to imagine all he had just been through, having just been born
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Mother’s Day Musings
My relationship to Mother’s Day has shifted substantially over the years. It didn’t mean a great deal to me until life surprised me with fertility struggles. Once it became clear that achieving parenthood was going to be an emotionally and physically draining obstacle course,
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Being a Birth Mother
There are so many misconceptions about open adoption, adoptive parents, and birth parents. By sharing a little bit of my own open adoption journey, I hope some of these misconceptions will be clarified.
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The Adoption Parenting Grass Isn’t Always Greener, or Is It?
Thirteen years ago this month, my husband and I made a road trip to Riverside, CA, to meet a pregnant woman. Two months after that first meeting, our son was born and placed in our care by his birth mom.
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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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Supporting Birth Parent Connection
Our office received a recent email from a 24 year-old woman who was placed with her adoptive parents at birth and it made our day!
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Randie Bencanann: Thoughts on Retirement
Time to say good-bye
After 27 years at Adoption Connection, I’ve decided to step down/retire/move on/get-going … what is the right word?
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