Continued from here, where we were looking at statistics on adoption disruption and dissolution.

For more details, see the Child Welfare Information Gateway, where it is explained that: No national data are collected on the number of disruptions and dissolutions or the percentages of adoptive placements that end in disruption or dissolution. Most of the data that are... more

Domestic or International, concluded adoption process or not, disruption ... actually called dissolution in cases where the adoption is final, but classed as disruption in the common vernacular ... may present, as in all adoption, both loss and gain.

First the loss. The story of the Minnesota couple who returned their son to the Ukraine has pushed disruption into the headlines lately and thrown a pall over much of the adoption world causing endless... more

Warning: If you're sick and tired of listening to me moan and whine and worry about Sam starting school, skip this blog.

Know what today is? It's the last Saturday Sam will be a little boy. As of Monday, he'll be a school kid and the era of my little guy hanging at home all day with Mom and Sis, of having weekends special only because Dad's home, too, of no life outside the realm of family, and of having all his influences dictated by the dictators known as Mom and Dad will be over. Forever.

Beginning... more

This post is brought to us by my good friend and guest extraordinaire, Jane, who spent a portion of her second day of vacation composing ... and this after a full morning, as you'll read ...

As I was laying in bed this AM, watching the fruit bats fly past my open window, I heard a little voice call out from the “big house”, “Wake up Jane, it’s morning!” It was 6:00 and Sam was ready for “school”. I had promised Sandra that I would run some kindergarten level assessments on Sam to get a handle on his ability levels in math and letter recognition / phonemic awareness. I have quite a stack of assessments and thought I would do a little at a time,... more

Not someone I like giving attention, nonetheless this John Rosemond column was sent to me this morning, so I'll give the link and an opinion or two. Seems late in the game for such a self-proclaimed adoption "expert" to be getting the hang of appropriate language, but he seems to finally be grasping that tentative non-kinship custody, his term for open adoption, may rub people the wrong way.

Well, duh!

Rosemond says that open adoptions,... more

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If you are in your forties, fifties or beyond, you may wish to adopt an older child. Perhaps you aren’t up to the midnight feedings. Maybe poopy diapers during your board meeting isn't your idea of fun.

Or, Maybe you are single and want a child who is in school while you work.

Whatever your motivation, it is easy to find waiting older... more