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A Lifetime of Grieving and Healing

A Lifetime of Grieving and Healing: A closer look at Post Placement Counseling and Care for Birth Parents When a parent places their baby for adoption, they embark on a unique, complex journey of grieving and healing. They have experienced a profound loss. Being separated from one’s child, one’s baby, is not natural on … more »

Creating a spirit of openness from the get-go: The WHY

Yes, you heard that right. You, the adoptive parent, need to start talking with your child about adoption the moment they are placed in your arms. We sometimes hear adoptive parents say, “We’ll start talking about adoption and support them in exploring their story when they come to us and tell us they’re ready.” This … more »

An Adoptive Parent’s Journey to Becoming a Lifelong Learner: 10 Tips/Tricks for finding, consuming and engaging with adoption education and content

Becoming a parent through adoption means embracing a unique, complex, sacred type of parenthood. It’s an additional, specific identity as a parent. We’d argue this isn’t an innate skillset. It takes ongoing, lifelong education and support so you can be best prepared to support your child with the part of their identity that is being … more »

This Is Our Why.

This. This is our why. “As an adoptive parent I’m always striving to learn more and do better, which is great individually and it will certainly have a large impact on my son and his birth mother. That said, for radical change to happen, we need agencies to start talking about the ick.” This was … more »

Where Dreams Come True?

Where Dreams Come True? Where dreams come true. This is a post, we, Adoption Support Center, made on our Instagram in July 2017. The post still lives there today. It was a sentiment shared inside the walls of our agency for a long time. We want to say this, really good women, with kind … more »

I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant!

Everyone always wonders, “how does a woman not know she is pregnant”? I believe the human body is so great at helping the denial of instances we don’t want to face. For example, the most recent woman that called had every reason to “not know” she was carrying a baby girl until she was ready … more »

Making an adoption plan.

Ever since I started talking about adoption, people have been giving me all kinds of grief. The most common thing I hear is “how can you give up your baby?” Just because I’m considering an adoption plan, doesn’t mean I’m giving her up. It’s not like I’m throwing her up into the air and just … more »

The Wait

I don’t know about you but I am so tired of the saying, everything is different, or the new normal or post pandemic… you get my point. Adoption is no different than any other industry. Many adoption agencies across the United States are all feeling the same strain, many more prospective adoptive families and less women … more »

Adoption Support

As we begin another year, we like to look back and reflect on the past year. I personally like to focus on National Adoption Awareness Month which takes place in November every year. This year, I reflected on the way the industry has changed since Ronald Regan enacted this weeklong acknowledgment in 1984. The attention was originally given to … more »

Adoptee Reunion

A baby named April 1999 An expectant mom called at the late stage of her pregnancy. She had a young child at home already and was feeling alone and had no support from her family to bring another baby into her apartment. She admitted she was struggling financially and always had to call around for … more »