Athens Adoptive PACT - Parents and Children Together

02/01/2020

What an amazing story of healing!

My body and mind and heart kept getting lighter and lighter until I found myself at the airport on my way to meet him.

09/18/2019

On September 23-28, the 2019 Adoption Summit sponsored by Adoption.com will offer free presentations related to adoption presented by over 70 experts. My sister, Alice Murray, who has been an adoption attorney in Florida for over 25 years will be presenting about how to avoid adoption scams on Wednesday, September 25 at 9:45 a.m. Central Standard Time. To get a free ticket for the summit, you can use the following link:

https://adoptionsummit.com/adoption-summit-ticket-sales-pageeijv07k4?affiliate_id=1827963

07/09/2019

An informative article about adoption disclosure.

Professor Amanda Baden’s latest study published in Journal of Family Issues

06/25/2019

A thought-provoking read. Not all of this will apply to our kids (some of whom are now legal adults and may decide to search), but the feelings described are worthy to be acknowledged. As adoptive parents, I hope we can choose to walk with our kids through the hard places so they can be healed and live life well as adults.

Why do birth relatives reject some of us? Does our physical appearance remind our birth mothers of our fathers, whom they have no positive feelings for? Does seeing us trigger issues in them that they have never dealt with? Are they emotionally and mentally unbalanced? Or are they just downright mea...

06/04/2019

A reunion story of a Chinese adoptee and her birthparents in China.

Zoe Halbeisen never thought she'd meet the birth parents who left her on the steps of a department store 20 years ago. Then they found her.

02/17/2019

An enlightening article about identity among transracial adoptees, who often find themselves between two worlds.

Mengwen Cao photographed and interviewed New Yorkers who were adopted from Asia and grew up in white families.

07/31/2018

An informative article about the connection between childhood trauma and genetics.

The researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wanted to study the impact of childhood stress on genetic chemistry.

05/08/2018

Thoughts? Corruption in the adoption arena has lots of implications.

Authorities in North China's Hebei Province closed an orphanage and have detained its well-known owner over the weekend in a case that has sparked discussions on whether an individual should be allowed to accumulate wealth while operating a charity.

03/16/2018

Another important article about citizenship for internationally adopted children.

A young woman adopted at the age of 17 by her biological uncle in the United States is facing deportation, reports the Military Times. Soo Jin was in a bad…

03/10/2018

An important article for adult adoptees who were adopted internationally as children by Americans but still do not have American citizenship.

Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2018 will provide U.S. citizenship for international adoptees whose parents failed to finalize citizenship for them.