Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Blogging Basics
I’d like to blog to document our adoption process, and keep far-flung families up-to-date, but I’m not tech-savvy.
[Book Review] The Adoption Club: Therapeutic Workbook Series
A versatile tool to help adoptees work through feelings and find their voice.
[Book Review] Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted & Foster Youth
Adoptees write letters to other adoptees, exploring the unique feelings that only one who was adopted could understand.
[Book Review] Lost Daughters
Parents of young girls can read Lost Daughters to explore how their daughter might feel as she travels through life as an adoptee.
[Book Review] Saving the Dream
A reader reviews Saving the Dream, a novel that explores the “What if?” questions that plague many families.
Webinar Replay – Creating Your Adoption Profile
View the replay of the “Creating Your Adoption Profile” webinar. An adoptee and adoption expert offers guidance on the most important elements of creating the profile your agency or attorney will share with expectant mothers considering adoption.
The Federal Adoption Tax Credit
There’s no way around it — expanding your family is expensive. Can the federal adoption tax credit help?
Webinar Replay – “Imagining Your Future Child”
View the replay of the webinar “Imagining Your Future Child,” with Lauren Jiang, LMSW, to learn how to decide on the age, racial identity, and medical history of the child you will be best equipped to adopt and parent.
AF Picks: Best Adoption Blogs
We scoured the blogosphere for the most funny, heartwarming, honest online reads. Our congratulations to these 18 outstanding picks!
Summer Reading Special
AF’s 2011 picks for best adoption books.
Nosy Questions, Little Ears
Ever since our children were babies, we’ve heard them, ignored them, and answered them. But how do we handle them in the preschool years?
Share Your Story: Must Pack Items
We asked our readers which items no adopting family should leave home without.
View the Adoption Costs Webinar Replay
View the replay of the webinar “Adoption Costs,” with Denise M. Bierly, Esq., and Sue Orban to learn about domestic, foster, and international adoption costs and funding strategies.
The Top Ten Myths (and Facts) About Adoption
If you’re considering adoption and hearing falsehoods for family and friends, read on to get real adoption facts to debunk the fiction.
Documentaries About Adoption
These nonfiction films are sure to open up dialogues about the subjects’ experiences and your family’s story long after the last frame.
Share Your Story: Tricky School Assignments
We asked our Reader Panel: Have your school-age children been assigned any projects that were difficult for adoptees (timelines, genetics, etc.)? How did you handle the situation?
How We Afforded Our Adoption
We asked our reader panel: How did you finance your adoption? Share any cost-cutting or creative financing strategies with other readers.
Making Memories
Digital scrapbooking is the easy, new way to preserve your memories–and adoptive parents are leading the way!
The Steps to Fost/Adopt
The fees are minimal to non-existent, wait times can be shorter than in private or international adoption, and there are many younger children, toddlers, and even infants available for adoption. In many cases, subsidies are available for the childs living expenses and healthcare, even after the adoption is completed.