I recently wrote about choosing between international and domestic adoption, and shared some of our experiences with both types of transracial adoption.

Deciding what type of adoption is right for your family is not often an easy thing. While some people feel strongly pulled in one direction or the other early on, many are unsure. And I would say that even if you do feel strongly towards one type of adoption, that... more

There was an interesting comment left on this post from Jen, the mom of two boys and one little girl adopted domestically.(Thanks Jen, for commenting!)

You can read the whole comment here, but basically, Jen was sharing her feelings that it makes her uncomfortable when parents will only consider international adoption, because she feels like they are sending the message that there is something wrong with the kids available for adoption in the U.S. She also said that she feels... more

I have been putting off writing about foster care adoption because it is a tough topic for me. On one hand, we hear over and over how many children are languishing in foster care, desperate for adoptive families and all the campaigns to get adoptive families for children in foster care, and then on the other hand, when you talk to families who have gone through the foster care system to adopt, they usually have some tough stories to tell.

We tried unsuccessfully to adopt from the foster care system several years ago. We were open to one child or a sibling group of two or three... more

When my husband and I first started adopting children, we never considered a domestic adoption. We had heard so many “horror” stories about families having babies taken back after placement, etc. and that it was extremely difficult and expensive, etc. It wasn’t until we had an international placement fall through and an agency mention to us that they had an African American domestic newborn program that they were recruiting families for, that we started to think about it.

Private domestic adoption of a newborn or young child (I will discuss foster care adoption in its own post), is a very different experience than an international adoption. What appeals to one family is scary to another,... more