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Carrie's Adoption Blog May 2005 Archive

By Carrie Craft, About.com Guide to Adoption since 2004

Activities for Adoptive or Foster Care Children

Tuesday May 31, 2005
How Not to Go Crazy This Summer A few ideas for activities that you and your children can do together as well as a few for your children to do ... Read More

10 Things You Can Do Now to Be Ready to Do Foster Care Later

Friday May 27, 2005
This article was prompted by an email I received a while back. "T" is 19 and wanted to prepare herself to do foster care in her future. I ... Read More

What Foster Care is All About

Wednesday May 25, 2005
Today we attended a celebration for a past foster daughter who is graduating from high school. She is also leaving Tuesday for the Air Force. She and her ... Read More

When I Met You - A Story of Russian Adoption

Tuesday May 24, 2005
"You will always be Russia's child. But now, you are also mine." The last sentence of "When I Met You - A Story of Russian Adoption", describes the attitude of ... Read More

Pre-Adoptive Parents in the Delivery Room

Thursday May 19, 2005
Should this be allowed or is it coercive and puts pressure on the woman to relinquish her child? We are talking it out in the forum. Adoption an Option? - ... Read More

Russian Adoptions

Wednesday May 18, 2005
Learn the general requirements, travel times, waiting periods, and the basics of the adopting from Russia. I would also love to include some pictures with this feature. If you have adopted ... Read More

Let’s Talk Adoption

Monday May 16, 2005
Funding & Foster Adoption: What the Adoption Community is Doing to Find Families - Ricky is a little guy who loves basketball, and really wants to be adopted. But how ... Read More

12 Prayer Requests for Children in Foster Care

Friday May 13, 2005
Again focusing on May and how it is National Foster Care Awareness Month - let's consider the different needs of the children, families, foster parents, and workers involved in the ... Read More

Let’s Talk Adoption

Monday May 9, 2005
Talaya, 27, is an African American woman who was seeking loving parents for her soon-to-be-born baby. Find out how she came to choose a Caucasian couple to be the parents ... Read More

Nikolai, the Only Bear

Wednesday May 4, 2005
Nikolai is the only bear in a Russian orphanage and is misunderstood, until a couple from far away come and visit him. They understand his bearish ways and bring him ... Read More

Adoption - An Over Used Word?

Monday May 2, 2005
Does it bother you if someone "adopts a highway"? How about "adopting" Cabbage Patch dolls? You can even "adopt" a cow! Who should be bothered by these statements - ... Read More
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