Parents Daily News Roundup
Transgender Kids: Painful Quest to Be Who They Are When children insist that their gender doesn’t match their body, it can trigger a confusing, painful odyssey for the family. And most of the time,...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind the Decline in International Adoption?
Hundreds of thousands of families are celebrating National Adoption Month this November—including the families who have adopted more than 200,000 children from foreign countries in the last decade. But...
View ArticleThe Problem With the Russian Adoption Ban
More than 60,000 kids from Russian orphanages have found families in the U.S. since the Russian adoption program began more than 20 years ago—but now Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to put...
View ArticleWhy International Adoption Matters
International adoption is always a hot button issue—and my recent post about Russia cutting American families out of their adoption program was no exception. Inevitably, any story about international...
View ArticleIs Adoption from China Ending?
In the last 30 years, nearly 100,000 children from China have found new families around the world, thanks to one of the most stable and popular international adoption programs. And I’m the mom of two...
View ArticleStuck: The Current State of International Adoption
Six years ago today, my husband and I officially put our hats (and about 75 pages of documents) into the ring in the hopes of adopting a second child from China. And if we hadn’t been lucky enough to...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....