January 2017 Archives

Adoption Today

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Subscribe Now Inside this Issue FOCUS: Back to School What’s in Your Trauma-Informed Backpack? by Robecca Sorenson Fueling Good Behavior by Gabrielle Tilley And much more!

Directed by Stephen Herek, Produced by David Paterson Adapted from Katherine Paterson’s book “The Great Gilly Hopkins” Lionsgate Films, Gilly Film Production, October 2016, PG, 1 hour, 39 minutes Based on the book by Katherine […]

Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott

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By Joyce Wallace Scott Beacon Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-0-8070-5140-5, 215 pages, $26.95 The cover of “Entwined” caught my eye immediately. I can’t resist a cover with a photography of a baby and this one has […]

Richard Fischer: Adoptive Father, Child Advocate, Publisher of Fostering Families Today & Adoption Today Passes Away

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by Kim Phagan-Hansel It was a promise of children that led Richard and Annie Fischer down the path to intercountry adoption. It was a serendipitous newspaper article that would turn the couple’s sights to China, […]

Flesh from Their Flesh, Blood from Their Blood

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by Sunny Jo Mirror, mirror on the wall . . . I used to look at myself in the mirror and see her — my mother, my unknown Korean mother, my biological mother. Or, at […]

The Rewards and Responsibilities of Transracial Adoption

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by Kelly A. Biernat At the park the other day, a young woman commented on how beautiful my brown-skinned, curly-haired daughter is. Proud mom that I am, I thanked her graciously and was open to […]

Five Years Apart, But Practically Twins

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by Erin Howard It used to drive me crazy when my parents would call me by my sister’s name. I swore, with all the self-righteousness of childhood, that I would never call my future daughters […]

SAFE at School

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by Marilyn Schoettle S.A.F.E. at School is a well-regarded training program for educators whose goal is to create a positive school environment for all students about adoptive families and adoption. Although most educators truly want […]

Jump-Starting Attachment with Babies and Toddlers

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While waiting for our children to arrive, most of us have entertained the fantasy that our new babies or toddlers will greet us with open arms, ready to love and be loved. Reality is more […]