Adoption and Parenting Magazine

Adoption stories: Adopting siblings

Today's article is written by Sarah, sharing her experience of adopting siblings. She describes a bit about her journey to becoming a...

Teen Talk Adoption

Life story work and contact with birth family is such an important part of the adoption process. But it's definitely something where one size...

The adoption assessment

Once you've identified the agency you want to go with and have been accepted by them, the formal adoption assessment begins.

The Adoption Legal Centre: Legal advice for adopters

Adoption disruption continues to bring the most readers to the magazine when they're looking for articles about it in search engines. So,...

Attachment focused family therapy

Attachment is something a lot of adopted children struggle with. Learning to trust their caregivers is hard for children when they've been...

The adoption process: Is it for me?

People decide to create their family through adoption for a variety of reasons. Some have never tried to have a birth child...

Adoption stories: Contact and life story interview with Chris

The next series of interviews is about contact and life story work. Knowing about their birth history and learning to understand it...

Five ways to reuse plastic milk bottles

Every year, we use around 7.7 billion single-use plastic bottles in the UK. Many of those end their lives in landfill sites, or in...

Adopter stories: Adoption disruption

I started this magazine to share experiences of adoption and raise awareness of the realities of the process, and parenting children who...

Five ways to get your clothes dry in winter

This post includes affiliate links. That means if you click on product links to Amazon, and then buy something, I get paid...

Reducing single-use plastic

Let’s all make 2024 the year we make a difference to the beautiful world we live in. Making small changes to the...

Indirect contact: The settling in letter

I can't begin to imagine what it is like being told by a court that I can't parent my child. And then...

Eight adoption books for parents-to-be

When we started our adoption journey, I wanted to find out what the process was really like from people who'd been through...

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