Stress, apprehension, anxiety, and fear are familiar feelings for many of us involved in foster care and adoption. And our stress affects our children too. Children rely on adults for emotional [...]

November is National Adoption Month! Read more about the history of National Adoption Day through this article by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption here.

Helping a foster or adopted child stay in contact with members of his or her birth family can be time-consuming and sometimes emotionally draining. Facilitated contact, however, can be valuable [...]

What have I learned about parenting a child with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) over the past 22 years? I have learned that it was not her that needed to make changes. The change needed [...]

Parenting children who have experienced trauma and who have had attachment interruptions drives families to embrace new, creative strategies to help children heal, attach, and thrive. Problematic [...]

When we are parenting children with a history of trauma or—even more commonly—those with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), stealing can play out very differently for a variety of reasons.  [...]

Transracial parents, service providers, educators, and others must lean into their personal discomfort and learn to have conversations about race and institutional racism, and work at becoming an [...]

For over two decades, National Adoption Month has been promoted and celebrated every November in communities across the country. Many national, State, and local agencies as well as foster, [...]

Implementing racial and ethnic socialization with your transracially adopted children helps strengthen trust and attachment by showing transracial adoptees that their parents care about, and [...]

Most Black children in the United States encounter racism in their daily lives. Ongoing individual and collective psychological or physical injuries due to exposure and re-exposure to race-based [...]