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Attachment Answers

Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA, is author of the celebrated Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents and Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma. She is a faculty member of Portland State University’s Post-Graduate Certificate Programs in Foster Care and Adoption Therapy, and a sought-after keynote speaker.

But perhaps more notable than any of these public achievements and accolades are the lives she’s touched in her role as an attachment therapist—infants and children, and their grateful parents.... read more

Families Like Us

My wife, Laurie, and I aren’t always in the mood to share our family’s story. Countless strangers have asked us, “Are they yours? Did you adopt them?”

When we first became a multiracial family, we took this kind of questioning as an opportunity to educate. Everyone who approached us got an earful about the plight of children in foster care. They nodded their heads, and glanced at their watches, while we nattered on. Laurie and I assumed the best... read more

A Gift for Grace

I could hear the guests arriving downstairs. My husband, Bill, kept them entertained, so I could pull myself together. Our family had come to celebrate my daughter’s first birthday, and I—the host, the mom who waited forever to be a mom—was hiding in the bathroom, sitting on the floor and sobbing.

Reflecting on the past year, I should have seen this coming. As a 45-year-old, full-time, first-time mom of a three-pound preemie, I quickly realized that there are as... read more

Reel Families

The Kids Are All Right
Nic and Jules (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) are raising their two teens, who were conceived through donor insemination. The siblings set out to find their biological father (Mark Ruffalo), and the events that follow are both hilarious and deeply touching. On the surface, this is a story about a family that’s far from traditional; at its heart, this entertaining film sends a message we’re already familiar with: Family is what you make... read more



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Click here to see the full list of classic Adoptive Families articles available here to download as they originally appeared (best for handouts) or to view online in text-only versions.
NEW! 2009's 30 Ways to Celebrate National Adoption Month download pdf (54k)
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