Waiting too long? Expand your view and gain experience
Advice for prospective parents who are searching for a child to adopt from foster care.
Common questions
Advice to parents adopting a child of another race
A professor and transracial adoptee shares her experience and suggestions for supporting a transracially adopted child.
Keeping children you foster and adopt safe online
Insights from a digital forensic detective and other experts about the dangers posed to children online and techniques to help you protect your children.
Outstanding Caseworker: Lindsey Cox
Lindsey Cox understands the challenges and rewards of adopting from foster care, because she’s both a caseworker and a foster mom: “It’s one thing to be trained; it’s another thing to live your job.”
Understanding children’s behavior and helping them heal
A therapist discusses some of the neurological causes of children’s behavior, sensory “triggers,” and ways of calming an upset child.
Helping children in foster care understand their history
In this guest post, an adoptive parent and social worker offers suggestions for how to help children of all ages understand their past and the circumstances that brought them into care.