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Time for You: "When do we get a break? When do we get time for us? How do we find time?" Time for You by Susan M. Ward When do we get a break? When do we get time for us? How do we find time? Parents balance multiple challenges within day to day living. Finding parental time to get...

To Judge Without Knowing
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To My Daughter’s Mother
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Pre-Adoption Travel Preparation
Pre-Adoption Travel Preparation Travel Pre-Adoption Travel Preparation listImmunizations for families going abroad for an inter-country adoptionDr. Aronson travels to Russia Pre-Adoption Travel Preparation list Before a parent(s) leave for the country of origin, they may require preparation for...

Unbroken: Dealing with the Choice of Adoption for Your Child
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Adoption Story
In the Best Interests of Whom? Baby Richard and the Need for Reform by Marcy Wineman Axness And yet another child, "Baby" Richard from Illinois, has fallen prey to the inadequacies of a system that is supposed to protect him as he innocently pursues his life, liberty and happiness. We are...

Unplanned Pregnancy Resources
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Voice YOUR opinion
Voice your opinion about important adoption questions... all kinds of adoption resources for pre-adoptive parents looking to adopt, for birth family searching for birth children for adoption professionals and adoption agency information HOME |Site Index | Site Search | What's New | Adoption in the...

Living Through the Impact: Voicing Our Needs
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Adopt: Enduring the Wait Until you Adopt
Adopt: Enduring the Wait Until you Adopt Enduring the Wait by Bob Smith, Social WorkerFriends in Adoption44 South StreetMiddletown Springs, VT 05757(802) 235-2373 Life would be pretty boring for all of us if we did not have special events to look forward to happening. But, it's just so hard to...

Children Waiting for Adoption
USA Waiting Children USA Children Waiting for Adoption by State International Waiting Children State by State Listing of Adoption Agencies and Attorneys. State by State Adoption Laws State by State Adoption Subsidy Information. ADOPTION ASSISTANCE for specific help from...

Note on Attachment by Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman
Note on Attachment Attachment is the base upon which emotional health, social relationships, and one's worldview are built. The ability to trust, and form reciprocal relationships, will affect the emotional health, security, and safety of the child, as well as the child's development and future...

Attachment Disorder Checklist by Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman
Attachment Disorder Checklist A professional assessment is necessary to determine whether or not a child has an Attachment disorder. At the Center we use several tests as part of a comprehensive assessment to determine what attachment issues are causing problems and what will be the most...

Handling Homework Battles by Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman
Handling Homework Battles by Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman Post to Art's bulletin board: click here and look for current Post Adoption Board Email this to a friend Handling Homework Battles “Mom, I need help with math!!” “OK, honey, I'll be right there.” Five minutes later the...

Oppositional Defiant Disorder
ODD - Oppositional Defiant Disorder Four year old Sarah throws temper tantrums, won't go to bed, refuses to take a bath, and is described by her parents as "hell on wheels. "Peter, age seven, often won't go to school, refuses to take his dishes into the kitchen or perform other simple household...

Temperament by Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman
Temperament Temperament is a largely genetically determined set of characteristics that remain unchanged from birth throughout life. Beginning as early as four months of age, a child's temperament can be determined. These temperamental traits are largely unchanged throughout life. Understanding...

What Adopted Kids and Adults Think About Being "Special"...The American Adoption Congress Decree (Spring 2001) by Sherrie Eldridge mail@adoptionjewels.org http://www.adoptionjewels.org/ "You're so lucky to be adopted!" "Just be thankful that you were chosen!" "We chose you because you are...

What Mental Health Professionals Can Do for Adoptees in Crisis...ATTACh Connections (Spring 2001) by Sherrie Eldridge mail@adoptionjewels.org http://www.adoptionjewels.org/ 1. Be aware during hospitalization that the adoptee is looking at most events occurring around him/her through a lens of...

Wide Smiles: Information for Cleft Lip and Palate
Wide Smiles: Information for Cleft Lip and Palate Welcome to Wide Smiles! Wide Smiles has moved.... http://www.widesmiles.org Return to Adopt Main Index

Wide Smiles
Wide Smiles He Would Have Been Aborted When I was 14 weeks along in my second pregnancy I had a sonogram done that revealed a cleft on the child I was carrying. I was devastated. My first pregnancy had been normal and my daughter was healthy - perfect. I couldn't imagine myself the mother of a...

Wide Smiles
Wide Smiles Adopting Our Girl We had been married for over 10 years and had been waiting about three years with our adoption agency before we got "THE CALL". As it turned out, it was a very emotional weekend. Our best friend's little eighteen- month-old son died the same day our daughter was...

Wide Smiles
Wide Smiles Cleft-Talk IF you are a person who has been touched by cleft in any way, you may be interested in joining Cleft-Talk. Cleft-Talk is an online discussion list that will link you to other families around the world who are dealing with, or have dealt with, or will deal with the very...

Wide Smiles: Support for cleft lip and palate
Wide Smiles: Support for cleft lip and palate When Normal Grief Becomes Clinical Depression by Joanne Green The baby is born, and the happiest moment of your life becomcs a nightmare. The perfect baby you had planned is flawed, and you know very little about how or why this kind of thing...

Wide Smiles: Support for cleft lip and palate
Wide Smiles: Support for cleft lip and palate Help Me Please--My Baby Won't Eat! by Joanne Green We waited for Jessica a long time -- nine months, to be exact. And though nine months is a reasonable time to wait for most babies, Jessica was not gestating through our wait. She was growing...

Wide Smiles: Cleft lip and cleft palate support
What Happened?! A Look at the Causes of Clefting Clefts commonly have a genetic basis, although occasionally drugs taken during pregnancy can be involved. Clefts of the lip and palate can run in families and be due to a single gene. If the gene is transmitted from one affected parent to their...

Wide Smiles: Support for cleft lip and palate
Wide Smiles: Support for cleft lip and palate

Wide Smiles
Wide Smiles Lacy Marie Schnatterer The WIDE SMILES Lacy Marie Memorial Scholarship is named for a very special little person, Lacy Marie Schnatterer. Lacy was born, the first child of John and Christine Schnatterer. A beautiful baby girl, she was born with a craniofacial condition that...

An Everyday Miracle: Part 2
An Everyday Miracle: Part 2 From Sheri's Point of View (This story was originally published in Roots and Wings Adoption Magazine) My name is Sheri Pharo and my husband's name is Darwin. We had been made aware that we were unable to have children biologically, We had decided to choose adoption...

A Modern Day Miracle
A Modern Day Miracle A Modern Day Miracle: An Adoption Story by Joanne Green Sometimes, even today, miracles happen. I don't mean the spectacular miracles, I mean the quiet ones - the miracles that happen when just the right things happen at just the right time to just the right people, and in...

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