by Emma Vex | Jul 15, 2014 | Adoptions, International Adoptions, Uncategorized
Last April, New Beginnings announced it’s international adoption program with Poland. We are one of the very few Hague agencies offering adoptions from this country, working with some of the best and most experienced coordinators in Poland, and have already completed...
by Emma Vex | Jul 8, 2014 | Adoptions, International Adoptions, Uncategorized
We introduced you to the Barefoot family late last year when they returned from Poland just before Christmas. We’re happy to bring you an update from the family themselves. We began our adoption journey just over a year ago. We were excited to find...
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 | Jun 26, 2014 | Adoptions, International Adoptions, Nepal, Uncategorized
In 2010, Lauren Kitchens-Steward, a New Beginnings adoptive mother, brought her beautiful daughter Channing home from Nepal. Unfortunately like many other Nepali adoptions, Lauren was forced to battle for her daughter against an unjust government suspension of...
by Emma Vex | Jun 25, 2014 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions, Uncategorized
We all enthusiastically love summertime! That sentence can’t be written without an exclamation point. Every family has specific summer traditions that stick out in our minds as we nostalgically remember summer as children. One of my favorites centers around...