by Emma Vex | Sep 1, 2014 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions, Uncategorized
Adoption begins with loss of a birthparent. Either through death or an inability to parent, your child lost his or her birthparents. The beautiful picture of adoption is the restoration of love and family. However, that initial loss often fosters many questions from...
by Emma Vex | Aug 8, 2014 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions, Uncategorized
Incorporating exercise into your children’s lifestyle is extremely important not only for their physical health, but also their emotional and mental state. Exercising with your child, especially your adopted children, can increase bonding between parent and child as...
by Emma Vex | Jul 17, 2014 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions, Uncategorized
Everyone has experienced grief at some point of his or her life. Yet, as adults we often find difficulty in accepting a child’s grief, especially adoptive children’s grief. We hear the following sentences all too often, “But you rescued him/her. They shouldn’t be sad....
by Emma Vex | Jul 1, 2014 | Adoptions, Birthmothers, Domestic Adoptions, Uncategorized
Miranda (true name), 16 years old and pregnant, with no mother or father in her life to offer love or support, endured the pressure of her very own grandmother to abort her unborn baby. As the grandmother of four amazing grandchildren, I find it difficult to grasp....
by Emma Vex | May 7, 2014 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions, Uncategorized
We hear the horror stories every day of adoptions that cost more than they should or didn’t go as smoothly and problem free as the adoptive family expected. More often than not, those problems resulted from the use of unregulated and unlicensed adoption facilitators....
