Stories of Adoption

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• Maintaining Connections with Foster Families: An International Perspective By Barb King. The story of an adoptive family keeping in contact with her child's Guatemalan foster family.
  

• I Can't Imagine Life Without You by Elizabeth Ghilardi. How one family's tragedy helped them find the road to adoption.

• We Are Family by Leah Elson. The story of a gay couple who created a happy family through adopting from the child welfare system. 

• Adoption From a Birth Mother's Perspective by Michelle. One birth mother's decision to make an adoption plan for her daughter and the open adoption she and the adoptive family created.

• Connecting After Adoption. This adoptive mother talks about her journeys through closed and open adoptions and of one child's decision to find her birth family.