Category: Unspoken Needs
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What Creates Hope for Discouraged Adoptive and Foster Parents
There’s a three-fold secret I discovered during the search for my first mother that may bring hope to discouraged adoptive and foster parents. Parents, I know the Marine-like challenge you’ve undertaken to parent a child through adoption. Sometimes, you’re on the verge of complete exhaustion or panicked about what is happening in your child’s life.…
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The Unspoken Raw Realities All Adopted Kids Experience
For an adopted child, the dance floor is the first mother’s womb, for there the unborn child gains a sense of belonging, a sensation of safety in the warm sack of water, and a sense of rhythm from the mother’s beating heart. These dance floor elements are what every child expects after birth–a continuation and…