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7 Tips To Prepare Your Family For The Holidays with Your Newly Adopted Child

Post-Adoption

The days are becoming shorter and many of us are experiencing that crisp fall air. The holiday season is around the corner, and it always seems arrive...

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How to Build Loving Bonds Beginning on Day One

China   Bonding & Attachment, Adoption Education and Training, Transitions

On the morning she first met her daughter in China, Liz Larson could feel the weight of both the joy she would feel as well as the potential fear...

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The Ripple Effect of Adoption Advocacy

Haiti   Older Child Adoption, Family Adoption Stories, Adoption Process, Orphanage Support

Have you ever heard the phrase “the ripple effect” and how one thing that you do can create a chain reaction for other individuals and ult...

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The Children in Need of Adoption in South Africa

South Africa   Older Child Adoption, Toddler Adoption

We've known for many years that there are children in South Africa who need adoptive families, but it took many years for the governmental permissio...

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Adopt from Bulgaria

Bulgaria   How To Adopt, Adoption Process

Spence-Chapin’s mission is driven by a fundamental belief that all children deserve a forever family. Since 1995, Spence-Chapin has been finding...

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Dear soon-to-be-Mama-of-twins

China   Adoption Advocacy

Dear soon-to-be-Mama-of-twins, You’ve seen their pictures.  You’ve started picturing your life with them in it.  I’ll neve...

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Urgent! Domestic Adoption for Newborn with Significant Special Needs

Hope Gallery

UPDATE 10/30/17:  Baby Boy has a family! Thank you to all who advocated and shared his story!  Baby Boy was born 9/23/17 at a hospital in In...

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10 Questions About Adopting from South Africa

South Africa   Adoption Process

Spence-Chapin began its adoption program in South Africa in 2013 and partners with Johannesburg Child Welfare Society (JCW), a social service agency s...

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Down Syndrome Adoption: Home with Caroline

Down Syndrome   China   Special Needs Adoption, Family Adoption Stories, Waiting Children, Post-Adoption

For Down Syndrome Awareness Month, we checked in with Lindsey and Jesse, who adopted the sweetest girl Caroline last year. Once they saw her pict...

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Boys Boys, Wonderful Boys! These Older Boys Need Families

China   Older Child Adoption, Boys

Amy Castle, Holt’s administrative social worker for the China program, recently visited a new orphanage partner for Holt in China. Very few chil...

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