My husband linked me to advice column on Slate (because my husband likes reading advice columns, apparently) in which the first question is about adoption. Well, it's also about horribly rude and ignorant people, and adoption is the medium by which they express their horribleness and ignorance, but you get the drift.

[The Letter]
Anne and I have daughters ( Read more... )

What are your personal experiences with adopting toddlers (18ms-3yrs) and older children(3-10 years old)? My partner and I have decided that we really would like to bring a child into our house filled with a lot of love (and cereal). I don’t feel any sort of biological urge to bond with a newborn and I know there are many older kids who need homes ( Read more... )

Since there's all this pre-election bollocks going on, does anyone here have a clue what any of the parties stances are on the subject of adoption?

xposted all over the place

Just wanted to say hello.  I have a long history with adoption.  My brother was adopted from Korea when I was 11 years old and he was 4 1/2 months old.  He's now 22 and you can do the math on how old I am.  ;)

In adulthood, I worked the past couple years as a contract social worker doing home studies and post adoption visits for an agency that dealt ( Read more... )

Not sure if anyone here is adopted from overseas or has adopted from overseas but just wondering on input ( Read more... )

Just wanted to write a quick note, I actually think this is my first post in here. We have been in the adoption process for about a year now and finally were matched with a birth mother very quickly over Christmas. Our son was born on Dec 28th and is a beautiful baby boy. If you are looking for a good agency I would go with Heart To Heart Adoptions ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this but I figure this community might have more experience with this situation ( Read more... )

I posted this at my journal in a locked post, but I thought it would be appropriate to post here as well, very slightly altered. I don't mean to be definitive or anything, but I do think it might spark an interesting conversation, so here you are ( Read more... )

 She's just not that Into You:
My Unrequited Love Story

My daughter, the person I love more then anything in the world, does not love me as much as I love her. In fact, for the first couple of years of her life, she didn't know my face from a strangers. I planned it that way, but it was still very hard to get used to.

Someday, having a ( Read more... )

I have no idea how you parents do it out there going through the process. My husband and I just got on the subject of adopting within the past week and I thought I would start looking at what are the requirements. First off it seems you have to be rich be an adopted parent! I want to know if it is possible to be adoptive parents with a fixed income ( Read more... )