The Importance of Hospital Staff and Nurse Training on Adoption

Adoption has many moving parts. From birth parents, adoptive parents, and agency workers, to lawyers, extended families, and hospital staff and nurses. Each individual part has a different perspective and role in the adoption process. Since nurses and hospital staff are often unaware of the intricate pieces of the adoption world, it’s sometimes hard for…

The College Fund: How to start saving for your child’s future

The thought of saving for your child’s education can be overwhelming. Maybe your child isn’t even talking yet. How can you begin to imagine them going off to college? Or perhaps your child is rapidly approaching college age, and you have no idea where to even begin the planning process. In cases of adoption, your…

Adoption Soapbox

More often than not, we’ve found that adoptive families, women, and children who are involved in adoptions actually love to share their stories with friends, family, neighbors, strangers, and some take it as far as Capitol Hill. Sure many prefer to keep their adoption story private. But sharing personal experience, positive or negative, paints a…

Adoption Education: Why It’s Important

Education is crucial — before, during, and after you choose adoption. Adoption is a beautiful thing and the connections created by adoption are rare, to say the least. For anyone who is unfamiliar with adoption, the functionality of relationships in the triad can be difficult to understand. The “adoption triad” describes the one-of-a-kind connection between…