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10 Simple Ways to Have a Happier Family If your family is like mine, each day is so defined by routines and responsibilities that every minute seems 100 percent accounted for. You can't escape from such a full and absorbing life, nor would you necessarily want to. But there are ways to sneak into those busy days some moments of ease and closeness-spontaneous fun, better talk, a change of pace that breaks up stress and moodiness, small connections that encourage kids to feel good about themselves and make... read more An Unmatched Set At our wedding, friends assured my husband and me that we would create good-looking children. And we believed them. It's that cloning fantasy: our children would be miniature versions of ourselves, inheriting only our best features. I pictured a child with my green eyes and his thick, black hair. My dreams left out our worst features: big nose, freckles, a long second toe, and a proclivity to indigestion. So many of our dreams (and fears) were shattered along the way:... read more Not Open Adoption, Just Adoption Perhaps the time has come for us to stop using the term "open adoption."
When the idea of open adoption first challenged traditional, closed adoption, two decades ago, the distinction made sense: "open" vs. "closed," though both terms were controversial. Traditionalists did not like having their way of adoption called "closed," whereas "open" evoked hippies and open marriage. Nevertheless, the terms roughly defined the two conflicting views.
Today, there are few completely closed adoptions anywhere in the U.S.... read more
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