Parents often become entangled in control battles with their children, leaving everyone frustrated and disconnected.  Watch as Amy Monroe encourages parents to avoid control battles by becoming ...

One adoption social worker called In On It "the adoption book for everyone else": the grandparents and friends, neighbors and colleagues, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of adoptive ...

Adoption Learning Partners' webinars offer helpful support on timely topics and feature the leading experts in the field of adoption. Our experts present the latest research, draw on real life ...

Communicating and Understanding   The other day I was searching for a website that gives voice to birthmothers desiring to reach out to the child she could not parent with words of ...

Giving ‘children from hard places’ the gift of voice allows them to replace fear with trust. Giving them voice enables them to learn how to ask for their needs appropriately. Giving them voice helps ...

There is no such thing as a perfect parent -- and that is actually good news, so long as parents are willing to focus on repair when they fail and make mistakes. Watch as Empowered to Connect's Dr. ...

Who is your child in Christ? What is your child’s identity in Christ? Who has God called your child to be? What is the call of God on your child’s life? When God looks at your sons and ...

I realize now that when we first brought our children home I had an undefined but deeply felt and well-meant desire. However, I have also realized that my desire was not exactly what God had in ...

Who is this child? I heard once that personhood can be defined in three parts: (1) Identity, (2)Acceptance, (3) Approval. This intrigued me, as I have become increasingly convinced that ...

I remember one of the first prayers I prayed when we decided to adopt was about family unity. I felt a strong desire that we be one family, not split by the biological children and the ...

Several years ago, my wife and I, along with our three children, were sitting around the dinner table.  Suddenly, my wife looked around and said, “I have the feeling we are not all here ...

So often the wait for our children to come home seems so long, but the Lord never wastes time! Here are some ideas to make the time fruitful by building up your family even before your adoption. You ...

Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting ...

This booklet is a fact-filled resource for adoptive parents who have a child with trauma and attachment disruption experiences. Fraser provides tips and strategies that can be considered before ...

According to many studies, the average church-attending young person is more likely to not stay, than to remain. Before They Say Goodbye is a proactive project to help parents, leaders, and pastors ...

Road-tested with over 400 families, Before You Were Mine equips adoptive parents to celebrate and commemorate their adopted children’s birth stories. Parents will benefit from practical worksheets ...

Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) is pleased to present 52 Ways to Talk About AdoptionSM, a unique card game for adoptive families. Created by our adoption-competent staff, whose ...

Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a ...

This article by Michael Monroe from the June 2011 edition of Adoption Today addresses the topic of adoptive fatherhood: As an adoptive dad I’ve come to the place that I can easily acknowledge that ...

The school experience is an important aspect in the life of a child. And yet, school often presents unique and sometimes unexpected challenges for both children and parents in adoptive and foster ...