Total Shared List Files – 874 Girls – 285 (32.6%) Boys – 589 (67.3%) Dossier First (LID) files – 3 (o.34%) Under Age 2 Girls – 2 (0.2%) Boys – 12 (1.4%) At Risk for Aging Out Over 10 years old – 422 (48.3%), 138 girls/284 boys Over 12 years old – 221 (25.3%), 85 girls/136 boys Over 13 years old – 131 (15%), 47…
Today’s special needs highlight is brought to you in honor of July being Cleft lip/palate awareness month. Our goal with special needs highlights are to provide a fact based look at what parenting a child with a specific special need is like. Are you considering a child with a cleft lip/palate diagnosis? Angie Harvey is…
This is going to be a picture-less blog post. We apologize in advance for that. It deals with some rather sensitive subject matter that we thought long and hard about even discussing. We think it could benefit adoptive parents who are currently walking their own journey with birth parent relationships. Becky’s Story It wasn’t that…
Total Shared List Files – 2,345 Girls – 628 (26.8%) Boys – 1,717 (73.2%) Dossier First (LID) files – 3 (0.13%) Under Age 2 Girls – 7 (0.3%) Boys – 24 (1.0%) At Risk for Aging Out Over 10 years old – 796 (33.9%), 267 girls/529 boys Over 12 years old – 362 (15.4%), 121 girls/241 boys…
In 2013 we adopted a little boy from China who was, at the time, 3 years old. His Chinese name was Bo Wen. In our home, he is Bowen. Bowen happens to have Dwarfism. For us, that was pretty much all there was to it. But, for the world, there is so much more. When…
I have a now three-year-old daughter who joined our family via adoption from China in 2014. Her adoption happened at breakneck speed, five months start to finish. Our beautiful Cate had an eye tumor that was causing her horrible pain and eating away at the bones of her eye socket. We rushed to get her,…
I have adopted from China four times now. We adopted a little girl in 2012, then a boy in 2013, a girl again in 2014 and one more amazing little girl in 2015. Prior to those four adoptions we had adopted domestically and completed the adoption of four infants over the course of six years,…
April is Limb Loss Awareness Month. Children with limb differences are often available for adoption from China. Occasionally, children with a visible need can be overlooked as they wait to find their family because potential families are afraid of not only how the rest of the world will view the child, but also how they…
Total Files – 2,324 Girls – 632 (27.2%) Boys – 1,692 (72.8%) Dossier First (LID) files – 1 (0.04%) At Risk for Aging Out Over 10 years old – 792 (34%), 267 girls/525 boys Over 12 years old – 363 (15.6%), 122 girls/241 boys Over 13 years old – 187 (8%), 63 girls/124 boys Breaking it down: There are 792…
It’s that time of year again! The end of March and the beginning of April are that glorious point in Spring when parents rejoice and start to exit their homes with their children to burn off some of that cabin fever they endured during the long months of cold and snow. We enjoy the smattering…
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