Not everyone gets warm Hallmarky feelings about Mother’s Day. While the maternally privileged (like me, currently both having a mom and being a mom)...
March is Social Work Month!
The official theme for Social Work Month this year is “All People Matter.” Every March the NASW (National Association of Social Workers) place...
From the Margin
Lesa Ferguson originally wrote this post as a reflection for a church service in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. Rebecca Brown, a favorite writ...
Adoption and Religion: You don’t have to be a believer to deepen our understanding of family
CEO & founder Michele Fried shares her expertise in religion and relates how adoption is a major theme in Christian, Judaic and Islamic stories. ...
Adoption in the Military; Happy Veteran’s Day
On this Veteran’s Day, our CEO and Founder Michele Fried answers questions about military families and the adoption process On Veteran’s Day w...
Columbus Day
On this Columbus Day, we look back at our history in order to see what can be done better for children today. Christopher Columbus, you are the most s...
The Orphan Trains
On this Labor Day, we honor the labor and precarious existence of those who were forced onto the Orphan Trains. Here is selection of passages (referen...
“…walk together as sisters and brothers.”
In celebration of fiftieth anniversary of the The March on Washington, we are posting an excerpt of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech. For many of...
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A Journey To Hope
Guest Blogger Christy Lohner speaks about her domestic second open adoption and how different it was from her much more open first international adopt...
We Celebrate Independence Day
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~ Daniel Webster So let freedom ring from the p...