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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 »

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 »

Baby Box Alternative

Can I do an adoption and stay anonymous? Or should I use the Baby Box? What happens to my baby if I use a Safe Haven Box? Most do not realize what happens when the box closes and locks. The woman who gives birth can walk away and know her baby is safe, and her baby will be attended to within … more »

What happens when a birth mom revokes her consent?

Oh man, this is such a hard question. There is a movement in the ethical adoption arena allowing women to revoke their consent after a week. This movement is based on the fact that many women are in crisis during the time leading up to delivering their baby. They may have kept the pregnancy a … more »

Roe vs. Wade overturned…

As a staff, we’ve been taking the time to process and have conversation about the overturning of Roe vs Wade. In our conversations, Amanda shared with us when she first learned about Roe. “I was born just 5 years after Roe vs Wade, my entire young life I assumed Roe was a woman that WANTED … more »