Holt International’s Child Sponsorship Programs have provided life-changing support for over 2,000 children and families in Korea since 1956.
“Are you their nanny?”
Help kids understand what it means to be adopted with these thoughtful books, featuring important lessons about love and family dynamics.
Did you know that November is National Adoption Month in the United States? Both of my children were adopted, and from the very beginning we have been sharing stories with them to normalize adoption, help
Announce that you're adopting a child in a new, fun way. Here are super cool ways to break the news of your adoption to family and friends.
Adopting a child is one of the most amazing things that you can do in your life. In the USA, many babies and children are adopted every single week and it is becoming a more viable option for more people across the country. Here, we are going to give you some tips to help with the adoption process.
Shannon Dingle shares the four types of special-needs found in adoptive and foster care families.
I welcomed these challenges because there will be issues that come up with biological as well as adoptive children. That is simply a part of parenting and that’s what I signed up for. We are excited to introduce Ian and Candace from Washington State along with their three children, Aidan, Donovan and Aiyana. Aidan and ...
Our Adoption Journey: 3 Years Later. What life looks like now three years after adopting our son. An update on open adoption.
Families whose internationally adopted children are automatically U.S. citizens upon arrival home (IR-3 or IH-3 visa) face the choice of whether or not to “re-adopt” their child in their state. The primary reason that families forego the re-adoption process is due to cost and time commitment to complete this process. This hesitation is understandable, as ...
As you know, November is National Adoption Month, and to honor this special holiday, we will be posting a new, helpful infographic every Wednesday this month. We hope these graphics will help you understand more about the adoption process and adoption in general.
Help children of a different race who joined your family through transracial adoptions or foster care feel more secure and safe in your home.
Hopeful adoptive parents have plenty of questions during the adoption process. One of the questions might be, ”Will my adopted child love me?”
Jacqueline and Tracy Probst write an update and thank you letter to the people who helped fund their Holt adoption grant.
Think you could be the right family for an older child adoption? First, here are 10 things you need to know about adopting an older child.
Adopting outside your own race is a big decision. Learn a few things you should consider, plan for, and prepare for.
Want to understand how to adopt a child in the UK? We have a guest article from an adoption campaign giving you the info. Check it out now.
Find out how to adopt a child from South Africa, the requirements, and the adoption stories leading children to a permanent, loving family.
Carolyn Twietmeyer and her husband, Kiel, had seven children when they decided to adopt just one more. So how did they end up with six adopted children from Africa, including two who are HIV-positive? It wasn't an easy road, Carolyn Twietmeyer writes -- but it's been worth it. By Carolyn Twietmeyer, special to TODAY MomsAfter years of grazing the topic of adoption with my husband, he finally agre
On Rage Against the Minivan, Kristen Howerton brings humor and insight to modern family life and how today's pop culture and social justice issues intersect with challenges like foster parenting, adoption, special needs, mental health, home renovations, and travel with children. Add a dash design and style for the full RATM experience.
2015 was a great year for our families adopting from Mexico! We have received referrals of children for four of our Mexico program families. We currently have three families who have accepted referrals and have been matched with children.
Help kids understand what it means to be adopted with these thoughtful books, featuring important lessons about love and family dynamics.
Parents who have adopted on what to know about adoption, the best ways to help and and what to say (and not to say) to parents who have grown their family via adoption and how to best support any adoptive families you know
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about Holt's adoption grants to help waiting children with special needs join families.
We're excited to launch the Promptly Journals x The Archibald Project Adoption Journal! We teamed up with The Archibald Project on this special collab to help support a cause we care deeply about.The Archibald Project is an orphan care advocacy organization founded by wife and husband duo Whitney and Nick Runyon. We sat down with the duo to learn more about The Archibald Project and the details of their own amazing adoption journey.
What do you know about foster care adoption? Why are children removed from their homes, what ages are kids and would foster parents do it again?
Adoption can be a confusing and difficult time for mothers thinking about giving their child up for adoption, couples who can't have kids and the child waiting to be placed in a family.
Having adoption books for kids helps them to better understand their story and to ask questions and be able to talk openly about it. It helps them to know that there are other children who have also been adopted.
Looking to go through the Christian adoption process? Here's everything you should know about the agencies, cost, benefits, and challenges.
Evidence of names being changed, of cash payments being made, and children being adopted to the US have been confirmed, among other irregularities.
Have questions about Jewish adoption? Here's what to know about the process, conversion, and the teachings of Judaism on adoption.
"Foster youth need more permanent supports."
Lately, I have been doing a lot of thinking about our time in Ethiopia when we went to pick up our son, who was 7 at the time, and our daughter, who was 4 at the time. In a lot of ways, things did not go very well. Do you see the truth behind the picture […]
Read how things changed for our family 3 years after international adoption from China in eating, attachment, transracial issues, and faith.
Adoption photography is such a moving thing! Jacob FINALLY got adopted, after spending so much of his life in foster care, and got a new last name.
Independent adoption is the term for adoptions arranged between birth parents and adoptive parents that already know each other or found each other without agency help. Adopting a friend's baby is a prime example of independent adoption.
There are many children in India unable to be parented by their birth families, and waiting in orphanages for adoptive families. Prospective adoptive parents sometimes shy away from looking into India adoption based on misunderstandings and outdated or false information about the process and co
New parents, Dennis and Katie Whitaker adopted a 3-year-old boy named Soul on National Adoption Day, a day where courts across the country come together to finalize thousands of adoptions of children from foster care.
Adoption grants for everyone, including couples and individuals, regardless of race, religion, gender, ethnicity, marital status or sexual orientation.
Creating a Family, the national adoption, and foster care education & support nonprofit, provides trauma-informed & expert-based resources on domestic infant adoption, foster care adoption, international adoption, adopting a relative from abroad, fostering/foster parent resources, embryo donation/adoption, attachment, transracial adoption, prenatal substance exposure, and adoptive parenting, and parenting children who have experienced trauma.
Heather Avis shares her family's positive and real experiences with adopting two children with Down syndrome and one transracial adoptee.
There are 34 children in the Briggs family - 29 of those have been adopted from all over the world and the family is about to get even bigger.
Our adoption story - the journey to adopting our son. The entire adoption process and all the steps of faith along the way!
One thing you have to know about Paul and Jenny: they love big. One look at their family picture and you can see that family is their first priority. I'll let Jenny tell you the story of how their family picture grew from just the two of them to a family of eight. Adoption has long been the way we’ve wanted to add to our family, even before we were married. Shortly after we were married, a mission trip to Jamaica working at an orphanage for children with severe mental and physical disabilities. I remember watching my husband hold a four year old child who could not hear, speak, or talk with such tenderness. He didn’t see any of this child’s deficits. We left knowing first hand that God had truly placed a love in our hearts that wasn’t just born of biology. We went home knowing we would do something about it. So, we became foster parents. We started fostering before having any of our own. Twenty plus foster children later (and four biological!), God brought our incredible son, James, into our lives through foster care. In short, fostering babies and children and loving their birth families has been amazing and something we’ll forever be grateful for. We still have a lot more love to pour out; we love our family and want to share it with another little one! And so, they began the domestic infant adoption process with Christian Adoption Consultants last May. They were home study ready in July, And seven months later they were matched with an expectant mom. I watched them over the next several months as they loved their expectant mother. Paul and Jenny are passionate about living out their faith, sharing Jesus with their kids, and were devoted to doing the same with her. In their profile for their birth mother, they wrote these words: If you choose us to parent your child, they will be raised to dream big. They will be taught that they can do anything in God’s strength, and have a team of people who love them (including you!) cheering them on as they go. We will do all that we can to raise a young person that you will be very proud of. We’re sure this little one will grow to be a difference maker in the world! In May they welcomed their son into the world. Their family grew from seven to eight. Their son's story didn't start the day he was born. It didn't start the day his birth mother chose Paul and Jenny to be his parents or when they knew their dining room table had room for another. It didn't even start that day Jenny saw Paul hold a little one and know parenthood would be one of their most important callings in life. His story began before the beginning of time when a Creator wrote his story, wrote him into their family, and knew he would be a difference maker in the world.
MLJ Adoptions is thrilled to announce that our first family completed their adoption from Burkina Faso, and arrived home with their son!
Top 10 Factors to consider when adopting from India. Info about parental requirements, available children, costs, and process.
