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Homemade Gifts for Birth Families
Christmas presents given to an adopted child's birth family can become special treasures and keepsakes. From artwork to music, there is a personal gift for everyone.
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Keeping Contact with Birth Family
Staying in touch with an adopted child's birth family can develop meaningful relationships for everyone involved and give the child a connection to her past.
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Researching Adoption Genealogy
Adoption can be a complex matter in life-and in genealogy. Here are some considerations to help guide your family tree search if you have adopted relatives.
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Gathering Birth Family Information for Adoptees
Working together, adoptive and birth parents can provide answers to key questions an adoptee might eventually ask about her birth family.
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How to Begin a Birth Parent Search
Attending support groups, finding birth records and contacting agencies are important steps for adoptees looking for information about their biological parents.
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Family Trees for Adopted Kids
Making a family tree for an adopted child can be a challenging and fulfilling project. Try these creative ways of showing family ties.
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Myths About Adopted Children in Open Adoptions
For the benefit of the child, open adoptions are most successful when there are clearly defined boundaries and expectations between the birth and adoptive families.
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Scrapbook a Lifebook
Making a scrapbook lifebook for an adopted child is a heartfelt project that helps kids see the details of their life story through photos and journaling.
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U.S. and Canadian Adoption Search Angels
Search Angels help adoptees find biological parent and adoption information in local libraries, through adoption registries and on the internet at low or no cost.
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How to Adopt a Child Through an Adoption Agency
Newborn babies are typically placed for adoption by private agencies and licensees throughout Canada. Here is the basic process for private domestic adoptions.
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The Aftermath of Foster Care
What happens to children after foster care...
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Birth Order and IQ
Are the oldest really smarter than younger siblings? The research explains why this may be indeed true.
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Politically Correct Phrases Describing Adoption
By using updated adoption phrases, the general public uses words that describe adoption more positively and accurately when referring to adoptive and birth families.
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Family Activities for National Adoption Month
Recognize National Adoption Month in November by doing activities that celebrate adoptive families and the children who are waiting in foster care.
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How to Search for Birth Siblings
Adoptees wanting to find biological siblings on the Internet can begin by checking adoption registry websites, discussion boards, and genealogy sources.
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Attachment and Bonding Advice
Advice from parents about attachment and bonding with a child who was adopted.
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Positive Adoption Language
By using positive adoption language when speaking to people, adoptive and birth families encourage others to use appropriate adoption words as well.
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Adoption Themed Movies for Adults and Teens
For entertainment or as part of a healing process, adoption themed movies can help adoptees, adoptive parents and birthparents address issues in their lives.
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Holiday Stress in Foster Children
It can be difficult to know what to do, but there are several steps you can take to help a foster or adopted child deal with their mixed emotions this time of year.
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Private Adoption in the Sixties
The process for adopting a child in the sixties is quite different than that of today. Adoption requirements and considerations have changed drastically.
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Pros and Cons of Public Domestic Adoption
Families open to parenting older children, sibling groups and kids with special needs should consider adopting through government agencies and Children's Aid Societies.
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Review of Labours of Love by Deborah Brennan
In interviews with adoptive families and professionals across Canada, Deborah Brennan captures the joys and challenges of building a family through adoption.
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Thoughtful Gifts for Birth Mothers
Adoption relationships are worth celebrating and here are some gift ideas to help recognize the importance birth mothers have in an adopted child's life.
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A Working Family: Part 6 of Becoming a Family
Conclusion of a story about creating an adoptive family. Discusses connections between past, present, and future.
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Helping Adopted Children Thrive
Children, even very young children, can have extreme difficulty adjusting their adoptive home. Here are some ideas and tips for making that transition easier for them.
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Independent Parental Placement Adoptions
Independent adoption - working directly with birth parents rather than an agency - allows families to take an active role in the adoption process.
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Looking Ahead
An overview of upcoming articles.
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Adoption and Genealogy
Adoptions can create a challenge in your genealogy research, but it's not an impossible brick wall. There are ways to find out more about birth relatives.
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Background that Causes RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder)
A list of questions to ask about your prospective child's background to help determine the potential for her to have RAD (reactive attachment disorder).
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Attaching to Adopted School Age Kids
The focus of forming a secure attachment with older children is to spend time together by finding common interests and activities that encourage communication.
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Books to Help in Dealing with Challenges and Issues
Books to help adoptive parents who may be dealing with short-term or long-term issues that their chidlren have.
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Just for Kids (From a Child Who Was Adopted)
Child's view of adoption. Questions she gets asked.
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Open Adoption
Deciding to adopt after infertility, choosing open adoption, and the lowdown on what open adoption is.
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There is No Such Thing as Too Attached
A personal essay about the attachments formed as a foster parent.
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"At-Home Therapy" for Adopted Children
Tips for helping your adopted child to become secure and confident in herself through "at-home therapy."
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Activity Ideas for Foster Children
The holidays hold many emotions for foster children. Here are ideas for those days when they need something else to focus on to keep their minds and hands occupied.
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Adopted Children and Birthday Issues
By recognizing that birthdays can bring up adoption issues, adoptive parents can help kids find ways of coping with birthday parties and celebrations.
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Adopting from India
One reason Indian adoptions are popular is because the children are well cared for in the orphanages. Learn more about adopting from India and the criteria for parents.
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Adoption Disclosure Laws in Ontario
New Ontario laws let searching adoptees and birth parents apply to receive full identifying information of the person they want to find as of June 2009.
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Anne of Cleves, England's Queen to King's Sister
The marriage of Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves, while politically advantageous, became a disaster which could not be rectified, ending in Anne's becoming the king's sister.
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Are You an Expert but Don't Know It?
People acquire a huge amount of expertise during their lives but don't realise that writing about what they know could bring in valuable extra income.
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Attaching to Adopted Infants and Toddlers
Forming a secure attachment with an adopted newborn or toddler is a process of meeting the child's basic needs and creating opportunities for interaction.
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Attachment and Bonding in Adoption
Understanding the concepts of attachment and bonding, as well as the attachment cycle will help parents create positive and enduring connections with their adopted kids.
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Book Review: A Grief Out of Season
The 1991 book by Noelle Fintushel and Nancy Hillard, Ph.D., still rings true when considering the experience of grown children whose parents are divorcing.
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Celebrating Adoptees' Birthdays
Birthdays are supposed to be a happy time, but they represent a day of loss - rather than celebration - for some adoptees.
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Choosing Adoption Themed Movies for Kids
When watching an adoption movie with kids, adoptive and foster parents need to be aware of difficult themes, negative stereotypes and prepare for questions.
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Considering an Open Adoption
How a child adopted from your state agency can reap benefits from an open or semi-open adoption. How the benefits to the child can far outweight any negative outcome.
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Creating Lifebooks for Our Adopted Children
Lifebooks are the equivelant of a child's baby book, but even more important. Learn some of the basics of creating a lifebook for your adopted child.
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Famous Adopted Canadian Musicians
Many of them household names, several Canadian adoptees are famous for their singing, songwriting and live performances internationally and throughout Canada.
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Famous Canadian Adoptive Parents
Actress Sonja Smits, athlete Hayley Wickenheiser, children's writer Robert Munsch and politician Jean Chrétien are famous Canadians who have adopted children.
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