What is your idea of adoption? Each perspective adoptive parents has his or her own idea of what adoption should be for them. Discovering this truth about your own desires is the first step in your adoption.

The reality of Ukrainian Adoption Today.

Special needs children are often the last choice for many parents, and all over the world they sit waiting in orphanages for their forever families. Reece's Rainbow focuses on connecting potential parents with children with Down syndrome or other disorders.

With Ukraine's new laws preventing single women from adopting, what other options are out there? And which one is best for you?

Picking your agency is the most curical decesion for both adoptive familes and birth familes, and it's important that you do research before making an commitments.

The affects of a law or policy change mid adoption.

With the majority of children available for adoption domestically being either disabled (physically or mentally) or older, some families take on the task of raising thirty or more of these kids. Society however judges this.

While the US allows children to be adopted domestically until the age of 18 (or beyond) it refuses to issue visa´s to children over the age of 16 adopted abroad, leaving many children who have loving parents stranded.

A dedication to a sweet girl who is a testament to why international adoption of special needs children is crucial. She died in a mental instituion at the age of 5 in late May. In memory of Dasha (Alina)

A book review for a wonderful book about an the adoption journey of a little girl. Shaoey and Dot was written by Mary Beth and Steven Chapman