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Adopting from the Dominican Republic

Older Child Adoption, Birth Families, Family Adoption Stories, How To Adopt, Adoptee Articles, Adoption and School, Bonding & Attachment, Waiting Children, Adoption Process, Adoption Advocacy, Travel and Birthcountry Tours, Adoption Education and Training, Education, Boys, Family and Community Support

Q&A with the Harrison Family: Big rewards of a long in-country stay  A few weeks ago, we met the Tejada-Acosta Family, who lived in the Domi...

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A Long Stay Can Go a Long Way: Meet the Tejada-Acosta Family

Dominican Republic   Birth Families, Family Adoption Stories, How To Adopt, Adoption News, Adoptee Articles, Adoption and School, Bonding & Attachment, Waiting Children, Adoption Process, Pre-Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Travel and Birthcountry Tours, Adoption Education and Training, Adoption Funding, Grants, Finances, Post-Adoption, Culture and Pride, Family and Community Support

Potential adoptive families often balk at countries that require long stays to adopt; but as working remotely becomes more normalized and technology i...

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It is possible to adopt internationally during the pandemic!

9 Years Plus   Bulgaria, Honduras, Hong Kong, Dominican Republic, Romania   Older Child Adoption, Sibling Adoption, Special Needs Adoption, Family Adoption Stories, How To Adopt, Adoption News, Waiting Children, Adoption Process, Single Parent Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Travel and Birthcountry Tours, The Teen Years, Child Welfare Advocacy

Many of us have given up so much throughout the course of the pandemic. For some, it’s the idea of parenting a child or adding another child to ...

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Extended Adoption Travel - A Family's Perspective

Dominican Republic   Travel and Birthcountry Tours

MAA’s newest adoption program opened in the Dominican Republic recently, and we expect it to be a small program. This is partly becaus...

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Adoption Travel With Your Child

Adoption Process, Travel and Birthcountry Tours

Coming home with your newly adopted child is the most exciting time for adoptive families. However, there are a few things that adoptive families may ...

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Souvenirs of the Journey: Heritage Travel

India   Family Adoption Stories, Adoptee Articles, Travel and Birthcountry Tours

“Is it like home?” 15-year-old Nisha asked her parents, Becky and Tom, before they traveled to her birth country last summer. They were al...

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Stuck Somewhere Between my Chinese and American Identities

China, Taiwan   Adoptee Articles, Travel and Birthcountry Tours, The Teen Years, Culture and Pride

Sounds of laughter fill the room as my two host sisters, host mother and I shake our hips and sing along to the Chinese song “Little Apple&rdq...

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Reconnecting with Our Daughter's Foster Mom

Heart Defect   Korea South   Special Needs Adoption, Family Adoption Stories, Travel and Birthcountry Tours

We walked into the small, overheated room and 11 years melted away.  Our daughter’s foster mom looked at the 11 year old standing in front ...

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Annie Doig Visits her Native Country and Orphange

China   Adoptee Articles, Travel and Birthcountry Tours, Service/Mission Trips

Just three days before finals week, senior Annie Doig left for China to visit her native country for the first time in 17 years. “I have always ...

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Meant To Be

China, Vietnam   Birth Families, Family Adoption Stories, Adoptee Articles, Travel and Birthcountry Tours

A few years ago, when I was eleven years old, my family returned to my birthland -- Vietnam -- where I met my birth mother and a great big extended bi...

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