“& our story continues” Left to Right: Kelly, Julianna, and Jason Hello! We’re Jason and Kelly. Birth parents since 2016. Adoption has been a journey, one we never imagined being on, but are learning from daily. Julianna is our miracle baby who brought us to this community. Chris and Jaime are the most [...]
Side 1 Side 2 As I write this it was exactly a year ago when I found out I was 9 months pregnant. A few days later I was in labor, and a few days after that [...]
Mia Hi! My name is Mia. I am 11 years old and I am adopted. My birth parents chose the agency - Adoptions from the Heart and open adoption. I think that this is pretty cool! And I feel that I am so lucky because of that choice. Now I have two families, [...]
Left to Right: Brendan, Mary, Caroline, Larry, Peter, and Katie It was 35 years ago on a cold fall morning when Mary and I met Maxine for the first time. She had recently started her own private adoption agency. We met Maxine in the basement of her home for our initial intake. We [...]
National Social Work Month is all about celebrating our agency's dynamite adoption social workers. It is not a secret that a social worker's job extends beyond the hours 9 to 5, Monday-Friday. There is so much more that goes into being an adoption social worker than just holding meetings and showing up at the hospital [...]
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Our Adoptions From The Heart Family shares why #AdoptionIsLove Check it out! https://youtu.be/ewe-TYlzMFU
Everyone involved in the adoption process can have difficulty understanding the situation. Despite whatever adoption triad member you are, somewhere down the line, this conversation will come to the surface. Particularly for birth parents, explaining adoption to their older children can be an emotionally trying and tough situation. The exact age of your child [...]
On December 4, 2019, the AFTH Wilmington, DE office held its monthly Birth Parent Support Group. Each month allows the women in this group to come together and not only enjoy one another, but to be one another's "rock" and "hype woman." The holiday season often goes hand-in-hand with the term "family time," which can become [...]
What is Open Adoption? Open adoption, also known as “cooperative adoption,” allows for some form of communication between the birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents. This can range from pictures, letters, and phone calls to contact through an intermediary, to open contact between the parties themselves. Not many people are exposed to or have knowledge [...]
