National Adoption Month and the holiday weekend around Thanksgiving can be a great time to start an annual adoption tradition. …
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Nov
2012
Start an Adoption Tradition for Adoption Month
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Nov
2012
National Adoption Day 2012
Today marks a special day in National Adoption Month: National Adoption Day!
National Adoption Day was founded in thanks to the grassroots efforts of adoption professionals, adoptive families, law …
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Nov
2012
Celebrating Adoption Gotcha Days
National Adoption Day (tomorrow!) is the largest Gotcha Day for adoption across the country! Since its founding in 2000, more than 35,000 children (particularly those in foster care) have had their adoptions finalized on National Adoption Day.
But for American Adoptions families, a Gotcha Day …
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Nov
2012
Celebrate National Adoption Month with Other Adoptive Families
This Saturday is National Adoption Day, a day when those who are touched by adoption will be celebrating adoption in their lives! For many families, National Adoption Day is also the day that they officially became a family, and it’s so it’s an especially happy …
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Nov
2012
Bring Adoption Benefits to Work
National Adoption Month is a great time to bring employer-provided adoption benefits to your workplace!
It’s estimated that about 50 percent of companies across the country offer adoption benefits. But according to Adam Pertman’s book Adoption Nation, only about 0.1 percent of employees use adoption …
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Nov
2012
Celebrating Birth Parents During National Adoption Month
It’s especially important to celebrate birth parents during National Adoption Month! These courageous women and men made …
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Nov
2012
Social Media and Adoption
Social media has quickly become one of the most important ways to promote a cause or share something important – like the …
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Nov
2012
Tell Your Child’s Adoption Story
In a recent episode of ABC’s Modern Family (Ep. 405 “Open House of Horrors”), adoptive parents Cam and Mitchell have to come clean after telling their adopted daughter Lily an untruth about her birth mother. In a weak moment, while trying to get Lily to …
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Nov
2012
Share an Adoption Song!
Call a local radio station and ask them to play an adoption song in honor of National Adoption Month!
While there are songs explicitly written about adoption, many people feel adoption connections to other songs because of the mood they convey, the time they first …
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Nov
2012
While You Wait to Adopt
Healthy Ways to Handle the Wait
Once you become activated, the wait can seem like a lifetime. For some couples, this wait feels especially long and difficult during the holiday season when there are many reminders of family togetherness.
It is easy to get frustrated …