“Why didn’t you try IVF?” “Why not adopt from foster care?” “Why would you adopt from *that* country?” “Why not have your *own* child?” There’s an alarming new trend of adoption shaming on the rise, and it’s coming from WITHIN the community.
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- Latest Adoption Topics
- What Does Ethical Adoption Look Like?
- How Do I Avoid Getting Attached to My Baby before Adoption?
- I Regret Having My Baby — Could It Be Postpartum Depression?
- Choosing a School for Your Transracially Adopted Child
- How Do You Stay Hopeful During the Adoption Process?
- Will Being Open to More Adoption Situations Shorten Your Wait?
- Are You Choosing Adoption for Your Baby Because It’s What You Want?
- Can I Choose Adoption if I’m Leaving an Abusive Relationship?
- How to Contact Your Birth Parents for the First Time
- Can You Love Your Child and Still Place Them for Adoption?
- Can an Adoption Agency Ask Me to Move to Another State? [Adoption Coercion and Your Rights]
- Can You Prevent Adoption Trauma? [The Truth for Adoptive Parents]
- When to Start the Adoption Process [A Complete Planning Guide]
- Managing Open Adoption Relationships With Multiple Birth Families
- How to Update Your Adoption Home Study
- Categories
- About American Adoptions
- About Our Staff
- Adoptees
- Adoption Home Study
- Adoption Infographic
- Adoption Seminars & Events
- Adoption Situations
- Adoption Tax Credit
- Adoptive Families
- Adoptive Family Profiles
- Advice from Adoption Veterans
- Birth Mother Scholarship Fund
- Birth Parents
- COVID-19
- Employer-Provided Adoption Benefits
- Famous Adoptions
- Financial Resources
- Foster Care Adoption
- General Adoption Info
- Infertility to Adoption
- National Adoption Month
- Photo Contests
- Pregnant Women
- Raising Adopted Children
- Testimonials
- Thoughts from a Birth Mother
- Uncategorized
- Videos on Adoption
- Waiting Adoptive Families
- Blog Archives
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