Adult Adoption: A Mother’s Experience
“When people first learned I was in the process of adopting my daughter, the responses were pretty typical: first, they wondered if she was from America, and next they’d ask her age. And that’s when things got interesting. “Oh, she’s 19,” I’d answer. Typically,...
What Happens After the Adoption is Final? What About the Birth Certificate?
The legal adoption process is a means to an end, expanding a family in a specific capacity and formalizing a parent/child relationship. The legal process is initiated with the intent of achieving a final decree of adoption. We celebrate those days with love and joy...
New Issue of Fostering Perspectives: Ensuring Foster Care Is a Support for Families
Foster care should be a support for families, not a substitute for parents. Shared parenting can help us make this vision of foster care a reality. In shared parenting, resource parents cultivate positive, supportive relationships with birth parents, giving them more...
Activities for Foster, Adoptive, Kinship, and Biological Families During Covid-19
During this unprecedented time of social distancing and quarantine due to Covid-19, we have the amazing ability to use technology to connect, learn, and be entertained. Many families are also seeking opportunities to engage their children in new online activities and...
Kinship Caregivers Play a Vital Role in North Carolina: The Latest Issue of Fostering Perspectives
When a child or youth enters foster care, family members and “like-family” friends are often the first ones child welfare agencies approach to care for children until they can safely return home to their biological family. Becoming a kinship caregiver is both a...Page 1 of 3