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"We started visiting Jeremy's siblings. One visit changed my life forever. I felt a little tug on my shirt. His brother said, ‘Are you Jeremy’s mom?’ I said, ‘Yeah buddy, I am.’ Then came his crushing response: ‘Will you be my mom too?’ In less than a week, I was officially a single mom of three boys."

From an Outnumbered Bio Child in an Adoptive Family

Hi friends! It's that time of year again where we help someone who is in the process of adopting. As many of you know, we adopted our son Copeland in 2019 and since then we have felt called to help and support as much as we can to others who feel the call to adopt. It's crazy how much adoption has changed our hearts and our minds when it comes to where we give and how we view family. In our new kid's book you can read more about that as well. Each year we do something different when it

Let’s remember our childhoods for a second. Happy-go-lucky times of joy and, sometimes, annoyance: our parents asking us to wash the dishes, to move away from the TV screen to not ruin our eyes, dressing up in 50 layers to not freeze in autumnal weather. The common denominator, though: the hugs, the warmth, the care, the love. And yet, some children have no such memories.

‘Families don’t have to match to be a family. What makes a family is their love.’ (We match hearts.)

Before asking unintentially hurtful questions, read things not to say to adoptive parents, and what you can ask the adoptive families instead.

10 Adoptee Accounts on Instagram Adoptive Parents Should Follow | Adoptee, Adoptive Parents

An adoptive mother reflects on a recent failed adoption placement and what she learned from the experience.

Teaching your kids to be accepting of gay parents is a great way to teach them acceptance in a broader sense—and to teach them to be accepting of themselves.

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Learn how to create a unique adoption profile! My best tips for making adoption profile materials that stand out from the crowd.

If you’re struggling with infertility, it can really help to hear from others who have been where you are now. Christian couple Walt and Annie’s story shows how true it is that God leads each adoptive couple to their child. For years, Walt and Annie struggled with infertility, but in a single moment, they realized that God was writing a beautiful story for them that was over 20 years in the making. #adoption #waitingtoadopt #lookingtoadopt #hopingtoadopt

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‘Many families talk about how faith or infertility led to adoption. Neither of these apply for us.’

Famous moms like Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Charlize Theron have brought adoption into the limelight, and perhaps even made it look easy. But what happens, and who's to blame, when an adoption doesn’t work?In as many as a quarter of adoptions of teens, and a significant number of younger child adoptions, the parents ultimately decide they don’t want to keep the child, experts say.Writer Joyce

“Are you their nanny?”