In the past, experts urged parents never to tell their children they were adopted and to maintain the fiction that the child was born into the family. Today, this is just not the case. Not telling ...

These children's books help adopted children & their new siblings understand the changes happening in their lives in ways ...

When Amy DíElia of Gaithersburg looked for books about adoption for her Eastern European-born children, she found none just right for her family. She talked with a friend who had experienced the same ...

Once upon a time, families always matched. A walk down the street would yield the sight of husbands and wives hand in hand with their children, whose hair and eye color mimicked their own. If any of ...

Explaining adoption to your heart-baby is rough. There are so many things to weigh up and consider, and so many of your own emotions to sift through. And all these have to take a back seat to the most ...

When is a good time to tell a child that they are adopted? So far, we don't think that he knows. Is there a better way than another to share his story to him? We waited until the kids started asking ...