The adoption process is more than just the legal process of transferring guardianship from the birth parents to the adoptive parents. It is the creation or expansion of a family. Traditional definitions of a family almost always include just the birth parents. Today, that definition has expanded to include adoptive parents, creating an adoption triad. [...]
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The social workers and staff at Adoptions From The Heart are the backbone to our entire operation - making open adoptions possible every single day. On our Facebook page, Adoptions From The Heart, we have taken time every Friday afternoon to highlight someone at our agency and share their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with the [...]
It is common for tweens and teens to sometimes suffer from an identity crisis, which may trigger adoptees to want to learn even more about their biological roots. Here’s some ideas on how you can help them through this difficult time as they discover the special person they truly are becoming. Talk Openly About Everything [...]
Attending and presenting at health and adoption conferences is a great way to network and help spread the Adoptions From The Heart mission in the community. With so many events happening around each AFTH branch office, we wanted to give you a hub for all the conferences AFTH will be at in the coming months. [...]
Lori and Dan are no strangers to the beauty of open adoption, but things didn’t start off that way. “I never imagined in a million years that things would be this way, but now I can see how happy this little boy makes so many people,” Lori explained. Rewind a couple of years to when [...]
Yesterday, the Adoptions From The Heart staff gathered at Ryan Christopher's in Ardmore, PA to say farewell to a beloved member of the team. Tamara Christ, the AFTH Domestic Program Coordinator, Regional and District Supervisor, and New York Program Manager, last day with the agency is quickly approaching and we wanted to celebrate her! [...]
The following blog post will be told from the point of view of one of Adoption From The Heart’s amazing adoptive parents, Matthew. He opened up and shared his experiences from start to finish in hopes to help other families experiencing the same obstacles. Beginning the Open Adoption Process Our journey has just begun-although we [...]
Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, organized the first Father's Day celebration on June 19, 1909 - her own father's birthday. The day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. Today, Father’s Day is a celebrated all over the world on the third Sunday every June. (USA.gov) Originally the household provider, [...]
Seven families set out on an adoption journey together, faced some unexpected challenges, and rose above the odds by creating a new family not only with their adopted daughters, but also with one another. The Beginning of Something Special It was an unsettling time. The Iraq war, the Gulf war and SARS were raging across [...]
