Adoption and Adopting Children

The 'ages and stages' timelines are excellent developmental guidelines, but often are not an accurate gauge of the progress of a child who has been adopted later in infancy or toddlerhood. If your toddler is showing signs of delayed speech, when should you worry?

It's beginning to look a lot like... shopping season! For those people on your list who are in the adoption process, or who have brought home their bundles of joy, the items in this guide will make great gifts. For baby, for mama, and even an idea or two for dad... here is my 2008 Adoption Gift Guide.

Last week, Nebraska's Safe Haven law, which allowed children up to the age of 18 to be dropped off at hospitals without questions, was revised to limit the protection to infants under 30 days old.

A quick look at the web sites of adoption agencies working to facilitate adoptions in China shows a ‘wait time’ of anything from 20 months to 3+ years. But with a history of referrals after as few as 6 months and rumors of a wait of more than five years, what are prospective adoptive parents supposed to expect if they start the process now?