Throughout the long and often confusing process of adopting a new member of your family, you may have questions. The role of the adoption facilitator is to help you through parts of the adoption process so that you don’t feel alone in your journey.
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Google does not feel like your friend when it comes to finding an adoption therapist. Just a quick search for “adoption therapist” brings up thousands of potential sources, from parenting blogs to therapists’ websites. While some of them are legitimate, many others are scammers and shysters looking to prey on vulnerable families in a stressful situation — or maybe they legitimately want to help, but just don’t have the experience with adoption you need. Therefore, it’s important to know how to find a competent adoption therapist before you jump straight in.
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Adopting a child is a stressful experience with a joyful outcome – but the entire process can be incredibly expensive. Therefore, it’s crucial that you know your options for paying for adoption up front, from adoption grants to crowdfunding and beyond.
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When most people think of adopting a child, they consider babies or infants under a year old – frequently infant adoptions. Those who consider the next age group up, toddlers, frequently throw them into one of two categories: big babies or smaller, younger children. This is due in part because much adoption literature focuses on infants and older children adoption – it’s easy to forget that toddlers are neither. In fact, adopting and parenting a toddler is a whole new game.
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Parenthood is a bit like running a marathon. It’s a long, tiring, intensive journey, and can be one of the most rewarding experiences in any person’s life. Watching a child grow and mature before your eyes is a magical experience. But just like a marathon, as one ages parenting becomes more and more difficult and, at some point, not advisable.
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When you make the decision to become adoptive parents, there are lots of options to consider. When you have selected your agency, one of the first discussions you’ll have is whether or not you’re interested in ‘special needs adoption’ — but what does this mean? How do you know if this is the right option for you? In this article we’ll be helping you to answer both of these questions.
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Many hopeful adoptive parents feel barred from adoption by their financial circumstances, despite being able to offer a loving and enriching home to a child in need. Adoption is unfortunately quite expensive. There are lots of legal and administrative fees that need to be paid, as well as safety checks which we can all agree are essential. But with adoption ranging from $2,500 all the way up to $50,000 and sometimes even more, how can you afford to adopt?
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Adoptive parents find themselves in an almost entirely new environment. Raising an adopted child can be both challenging and rewarding, with plenty of small moments of struggle and victory along the way.
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Almost every aspect of our lives have changed with the advent of the internet and the prevalence of social media. There is no telling how many pictures, posts and tweets we read on a daily basis, and each one has an effect on how we view the world and those around us.
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The adoption process focuses intently on the prenatal period, with activities such as selecting the perfect adoptive parents whose parenting style aligns with the beliefs and wishes of the birth mom and creating a birth plan. Because of that, life following the birth and the successful conclusion of the adoption is often more of an afterthought.
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