How to Raise Resilient Compassionate Children: An Article by Angenette Stephenson
Fostering Perspectives is a publication created for foster and adoptive parents in North Carolina. It is sponsored by the NC Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Center at UNC Chapel Hill and issued twice a year. Each issue covers a...
Angenette Stephenson Featured in National Publication Discussing How to Avoid Unnecessary Removals
In February 2019, Partner Angenette Stephenson was featured in Policy and Practice by APHSA (American Public Human Services Association). In this article Angenette specifically addresses how child welfare social workers can avoid overreaching and engaging children and...
Adult Adoption in North Carolina
Adoption of an Adult Many families assume that adoption is only for children. However, adult adoptions are an option that many families can and should consider when there is an informal parent/child relationship that has never been legally formalized. Adult adoptions...
What is an Independent Adoption?
Independent adoption is the adoption of a child placed directly for the purposes of adoption with the adoptive family by their parent or guardian. The adoptive parents are not relatives to the child as defined by NC law. An agency may be involved but does not have...
Adopting Your Stepchild
What is a Stepparent Adoption? Stepparent adoption is the adoption of a child by the spouse of their biological parent. Many families desire to make the relationship of stepparent and child a permanent one through adoption. In this case, the stepparent becomes the...
Adopting a Child Who Is Your Relative
Relative adoption is the adoption of a child by their relative as defined by North Carolina law. Relatives are defined as a grandparent, full or half sibling, first cousin, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, or great-grandparent of the minor. When Is Adoption the...