Heritage travel can help your child understand her birth culture, and her origin story. Plan a trip that will work for your family by answering these questions.
AF’s, Complete Guide to Heritage Travel
Heritage trips help children discover their past — and inspire who they’ll become. Help your child prepare for the journey with these expert-tested tips.
Journeys of Discovery
A homeland trip can help kids connect “where I come from” to “where I’m going.” Having traveled with thousands of adoptive families, I’m delighted to share my thoughts on the impact of homeland travel on identity formation.
Parent-to-Parent: My Best Domestic Adoption Travel Advice
If you traveled domestically to adopt, what’s one piece of advice you can give others as they prepare to do the same? See parents’ answers.
“Breaking New Ground”
In the days leading up to a second adoption, a mother worries: Are we about to turn our lives upside down? How will our daughter handle losing her position at the center of our attention? Will I be able to make room in my heart for another child?
Domestic Adoption Travel 101
Tips for — and from — domestic adoptive parents on preparing for the emotional journey to meet your child.
Webinar Replay: Growing Up as a Transracial Adoptee
View the replay of this webinar with Deborah H. Johnson—on growing up as a transracial adoptee and what parents today need to know about talking about race and adoption, finding role models for their children, dealing with teasing, and more.
Ask AF: Recommended Travel Documents
Answers to your parenting questions.
6 Questions to Ponder Before Making a Homeland Trip
More and more families are finding that “going back,” whether to San Antonio or San Salvador, gives their children a foundation for building identity.
Share Your Story: Must Pack Items
We asked our readers which items no adopting family should leave home without.
Countdown to Summer
With vacation time approaching, many of us are wondering how we can use the time to celebrate adoption. What are your family’s plans?
How Should Parents Budget for a Domestic Adoption?
What costs should you be prepared for in a domestic adoption? Our legal expert explains.
“What a Trip!” – Domestic Adoption Travel
Even parents who adopt domestically need to travel. Are you ready for the journey?
Back to the Land: Planning a Rewarding Heritage Trip
Sometimes adopted children need to go back to their birthplaces to learn more about themselves.
10 Domestic Adoption Travel Tips
Try these tips to travel lighter and more easily for domestic adoption.
“Two Days to Adoption”
We’d had seven days notice for our first adoption. For our second, four. Now, two. It was as if we’d been training for this moment, and we were at peak performance.
Share Your Story: Travel Tips
We asked our reader panel: Tell us your best tip for saving money on adoption travel! What did you do to bring your adoption travel costs down?
“Journey Into Our Son’s Culture”
Visiting our son in the orphanage where he lived revealed the humbling truth that he’ll leave behind a lovely way of life.
“Becoming Your Mother the Moment We Met”
Still jet-lagged from a 15-hour flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, then another to Shanghai and another to your province, I awoke at dawn knowing that this was the day that I would finally meet you—my baby girl.
The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Adoption Travel
The adoption trip is a defining moment in a family’s life, the event that brings parent and child together at last.
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