Adopted Or Biological Or Both – Love Is Still Just Love!
Marelise, who originally wrote From A Cup Of Tea To A Family Of Three! No! Wait! Four! for us, shares her and her husbands experience of raising two children, one biological and one adopted. I became...
View ArticleHow Transracial Adoption Changed Not Just Our Lives But Everyone In Our Lives
Written by: Joni, adoptive mom to gorgeous Adam, writes about transracial adoption changed their lives and touched the lives of their families. I often get asked what’s it like raising a black child? I...
View ArticleAn Adult Adoptee’s Story
Ali is an online friend. She is also an adult adoptee, who like all adoptee’s has struggled with issues of rejection her entire life and then worked through the emotional roller-coaster of adoption...
View ArticleProcare – Gauteng Support Meeting
We enjoyed a lovely day with Letitia from Procare at the Pretoria Botanical Gardens today. I did make the terrible mistake of looking at the wrong invitation and arriving almost two hours late for the...
View ArticleThank You For Choosing Me, Oliver!
Nicole Shares Her Journey To Her Son, Oliver. Where to start? Well, the thing with me is that I’ve always known that I wanted to adopt, and living in South Africa, I always assumed that my adoptions...
View ArticleSome Encouragement While We Wait
Wait by Russell Kelfer Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried; Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied. I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate . . . And the Master so gently said, “Wait.”...
View ArticleTalking About Adoption With Our Children
I came across a fantastic article, written by Dr Michelle Borba, with tips and idea’s on how to help our adopted children cope and respond appropriately to the tricky, cruel and sometimes downright...
View ArticleAdoption And Family: How Everyone Is Affected, Not Just ‘Us’
Almost everyone of us who has contemplated adoption or announced to our families and friends our plans to adopt have received at least one negative or resistant reaction. I know this from my own...
View Article10 Things Adoptee’s Want Us To Know
I was adopted as an infant, during a time when adoption was still shrouded in secrecy. My birthmother kept her pregnancy hidden from her family for nearly seven months. Her parents and my biological...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Adoption Crisis
Below is an extract from a news article that appeared on News24 today: Since 2008 there has been no real increase in adoptions to help the country’s estimated two million orphans, Beeld reported on...
View ArticleDiscovery Health Amend Their Adoption Policy
For those of you who don’t follow my personal blog, The Blessed Barrenness, I have been fighting a battle with Discovery Health over the underwriting they had on adding adopted children/babies as...
View ArticleAdoption – The Age Debate
The most common question I am asked from couples considering adoption is regarding age limits on applicants. The only stipulation regarding age in the child act, is that applicants have to be over the...
View ArticleWhat Being Pro-Adoption Means To Me
Reblogged from my personal blog – The Blessed Barrenness: My life has, irrevocably and undeniably, been changed and blessed by adoption. And I consider myself an adoption activist. I am passionate...
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