A particular hot potato topic on family life is that of where a child thrives best. The traditionally-held belief by many is that the ‘gold standard’ for child-rearing is the heterosexual couple naturally conceiving their children and bringing them up in a stable home from cradle to adulthood. Of course, […]
Adoption
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We are proud to announce that we’ve just launched Developing an Online Safety for Adopted Children, a free online resource for current and prospective adoptive parents. It looks at the increasingly challenging world of the Internet, online communication and social media, and how to keep ‘forever families’ as safe as […]
Once you have made a decision to adopt, contacted social services or another agency, and perhaps been to an initial meeting with other prospective adopters, you will most likely be asked to attend a fairly in-depth training course. At this point you have not formally started the adoption process. This […]
The journey to adoption starts at many different places for each person, and it is an important part of the whole process. Even before the process officially starts, you need to take stock of why you want to adopt. There may be many different reasons for prospective adopters wanting to […]
Kylie Minogue has announced that she may not be able to conceive, following the treatments she received for breast cancer. Fashion News
This is a guest post by Paul Nevitt, a 33-year-old male who is going through the adoption process with his wife. We are very pleased to have him share his insights. Visit his adoption blog National ‘Dads Matter’ Week came and went at the beginning of December with only a […]
A mother has won the right to keep the birth of her baby, conceived on a one night stand, a secret from the biological father. Though the county court ruled that the 20-year-old had to tell both her parents and the father, the Court of Appeal ruled that the mother […]
Adoption Blogs has published a very useful set of tips and resources for anyone adopting a young child and introducing them into a new family setting. Knowing the warning signs for attachment difficulty and weak attachment is a good thing, but knowing strategies to improve your child’s attachment is just […]