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National Foster Care Month 2013 This May we once again celebrate Foster Care Month in Wisconsin and across the nation. Whether you’re a foster parent, relative caring for a child, […]

Brought up in a Vietnamese orphanage and rescued from the invading North Vietnamese army, Tuyet has been adopted by a kind and loving family in Canada. But polio has left […]

A guide for adoptive parents from preparations for a child’s arrival through the teen years.

Millions of Americans have difficulty understanding spoken language. They’re not deaf, autistic, or slow. They have APD. APD has been called the auditory equivalent of dyslexia, and its debilitating effects […]

This first of its kind handbook discusses the mind-body connection between a terrifying experience and a child’s adaptive coping mechanisms.

In Instant Mom, Nia Vardalos, writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, tells her hilarious and poignant road-to-parenting story that eventually leads to her daughter and prompts her […]

Prior to 1990, fewer than 5% of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, 90% or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often […]

Jim Gritter’s third book for CWLA examines the next step after open adoption. Building on his previous books, which promote the inclusion of birthparents, Gritter takes the approach that practicing […]

When children are kept in the dark regarding their origins, nobody wins Only rarely does a memoir come along that taps into the heart of the human condition. The Sound […]

The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope […]