(Photo by nappy from Pexels) How Race Can Change The Experience of Everything From Adoptive Training to Adoptive Parenthood. A quick image search of adoptive families still pops up the popular picture of white parents hugging smiling children of a variety of racial backgrounds. A minority of those photos show something else. Black families also…

Join in learning about where adoption has come from and where it might go within the life and experience of Jynger Pleasant. Jynger is the Executive Director of Dillon International Adoption Agency based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When she was young she witnessed families meeting their adoptive children at the airport in the early days of…

If you understand the importance of those people in your community who do choose to be foster parents, you can help. Whether you cook a meal, donate money to a local agency that supports foster families, or organize a collection of diapers, toys or clothes for foster families, you can make a difference to the…

When these children are born many of them seem just as complete as their ten fingered and ten toed neighbor. This may hold true until they start missing milestones as they grow. FASD can be extremely hard to diagnose unless the alcohol consumption is a known factor. Many children who deal with this condition end…

My goal is to tell you stories of those touched by adoption, which includes the usual suspects like birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees. I also want to share the stories of social workers, community members who are supporting adoptees and adoptive families, and vulnerable populations, as well as parents who wanted to adopt but…