http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog I talk about adoption, infertility, adoptive parenting, and plain old parenting. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:26:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wasn’t going to blog about Haitian orphans again. Really, I wasn’t.  I figured I had worn my audience thin on the subject; it was time to move on.  My resolve wavered, but held firm even when last Friday’s mail brought Time Magazine and the Wall Street Journal both running ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/wears-black-hat-haiti/ I received this intriguing question.  I kept thinking about it, and when I realized that I couldn’t answer it briefly, I decided to turn it into a blog. Hi, Dawn. I love your site, I love your manner.  Do you have any words of wisdom for families where one parent feels ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/certainty-knowing/ Sitting as I do with one foot in the infertility world and one foot in the adoption world, a question I hear a lot from people is whether they have to stop infertility treatment before they can apply to adopt.  I suspect adoption agencies and social workers don’t hear this ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/cake-eating-continuing-infertility-treatment-applying-adopt/ I was talking with a woman last week that had just finished her third failed IVF cycle.  She and her husband were gathering information on other options for parenthood.  As we talked about other infertility treatment and adoption options, she said that she would prefer to adopt, but she hated ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/surviving-dreaded-homestudy/ When the American group was arrested for trying to bring Haitian children over the border into the Dominican Republic last week, I literally screamed at my television.  Among my shouts were “Are you nuts” and “Think before you act”.  Their actions played right into the "international adoption equal child trafficking" ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/road-hell-haiti-baptists/ The New York Times ran an article last week on what is happening to the children of Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquake.  Indeed, conditions are bleak and we are only beginning to get a handle on just how bleak.  But what caused me the greatest pause ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/334/ Dawn, over at Fertility Authority , asked me to write something for them on how to know when you're ready to start exploring adoption. She didn’t want this to be, a "Here's how you know you're ready to adopt" article, but rather a "How you know when you're ready to ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/ready-start-thinking-possibility-adoption/ We have been inundated with calls and emails by folks wanting to help Haitian children in some way-any way- and preferably in some concrete way.  Rumors are rampant about children orphaned by the earthquake being airlifted from Haiti to the US and about the possible need for foster families for ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/airlift-haitian-orphans-foster-families/ Haiti had an active, if somewhat unpredictable international adoption process, before the earthquake struck last week.  The approximately 50,000 Haitian orphans (pre- earthquake) are found in about 177 governmental orphanages and 200+ orphanages run by non governmental organizations.  Most of these children had no hopes for adoption, but a lucky ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/speed-adoptions-haiti/ My heart is breaking for the people of Haiti.  As I watch the news, I am moved beyond words by the pictures, especially the pictures of children alone.  The mother in me wants to scoop each of them up in my arms and protect them, feed them, cuddle them.  I ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/adopting-child-haiti-post-earthquake/