Adoption Archive
“This book should be a wakeup call to all adoptive parents and professionals about the urgent issues adoptees and their parents face.” Nancy Newton Verrier, attachment therapist and author The Primal Wound and Coming Home to Self A Marin County, …
Recently I’d been thinking a lot about how this work uplifts me. On Twitter I had some wonderful conversations with youth advocates in the special ed and autism community about the public misperception that the populations we work with are …
For those of you who read this blog you know that our adoption experience ended tragically with our daughter, Casey’s, suicide in 2008. I chronicle the difficulties we had in raising her and the mysteries surrounding her sometimes-extreme behavior. Yet …
Apologies go out to my readers for my lack of postings these last couple of weeks. My wife and I have been swamped moving back into our home – a 1917 cottage on a hillside above Fairfax, California – that …
This post is in response to comments made about a prior post where it was suggested that a child adopted at birth is not at risk for attachment disorder. Some respondees agreed, others didn’t. The purpose of this post is …
I was reading a review this morning of the new movie “Jobs,” an account of Steve Jobs’ career. Now I’m a Mac guy and a big fan ofJobs, but even his biggest fans would acknowledge that he was a genius …
Our first image of Casey in April, 1991 came through another American couple who were in the process of adopting a 2-year old boy named Joseph (not his real name). He lived in the same orphanage as Casey did in …
International adoptions have made headlines over the last few months with the cruel political gamesmanship going on in Russia right now. It’s nothing more than using orphaned children as pawns in a high stakes poker game with the United States. …
Russian Lawmakers are seeking to pass a law which would prohibit adoption of Russian children and infants by US citizens. This law, which has already been passed by Russia’s lower House of Parliament (the State Duma), appears to be in response to …
