Many of the seven million adult adoptees in the US wouldn’t darken the doors of a church. Some do, but struggle with issues they dare not verbalize. What if the church were known as a place ...
I experienced a brand new, ‘first time in my life’ twice during the past month: I received text messages that looked like this:
Now, what was totally new is that it was not the ...
Sending a small gift and/or photobook to a child before he or she comes home has become nearly universal. It has also become quite common for parents to use an in-country service to send additional ...
Thirteen years ago as I prepared for the adoption of my first daughter I, like many other parents, embarked upon reading every piece of “helpful” guidance that I could find. The plethora of ...
This new, three-part video series from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child depicts how advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics now give us a much ...
This blog post offers wisdom, insight, and hope for when your worst parenting nightmares come true:
What If?
"One of my favorite parts of today was the collect call I received at 7:30 this morning ...
Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance of parents exploring their expectations and motivations, as well as the impact that their own history can have when parenting children from hard places. ...
In the adoption community we talk a lot about the need to parent the adopted or foster child differently. Over the 12 years since our first adoption I have honestly gone back and forth over this ...
Does the Church care for the World's children? The evidence on display tells a troubling story with an ever-increasing number of orphans in the world, kids aging out of foster care, AIDS babies in ...
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 ...
It isn’t always easy to know how best to encourage and aid young people in foster care. Here’s your chance to hear honest reflections and advice from those who know intimately the challenges ...
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 ...
Fasten Your Sweet Belt is a must read for any adoptive parent. Using personal stories, firsthand accounts from adoptive children and refreshing humor, the author and her 15 year-old adopted daughter ...
Today, over 130 million children have lost one or both parents, and every 18 seconds, another child in the world becomes an orphan. In America, 107,000 children in the foster care system are ...
"What would a world without Christianity look like? We don't have to guess because such a world does exist: it exists in the current and former Communist bloc. Through the ...
This Bible reading plan for children by David Murray is characterized by:
1. Brevity. I want this to be do-able. It is more important to be reading small chunks of Scripture regularly than ...
This webinar by the Christian Alliance for Orphans offers insight for those working in post-orphanage transition settings.
Although the best place for any child is a loving home, sometimes ...
