When Bob and Agnes Wells first adopted in 2002, they — like many families adopting from China at the time — came home with a healthy, infant daughter. The second time around, they adopted an older girl with delayed [...]
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Share Congratulations to our dear friend Dana Johnson, MD, PhD, for receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS). In 1985, Dr. Johnson and his wife adopted their son from Calcutta, India. A year later, he co-founded the International Adoption Clinic at the University of Minnesota – the first clinic [...] Share Tweet Dean, 7, is this week’s featured waiting child. Share Dean’s story to help find him a [...] Since 1997, the adoption tax credit has helped thousands of American families offset the high cost of adoption. Congress must act now to pass legislation that will protect and extend the adoption tax [...] Share
Tweet Share Fred and Caroline Hille adopted from China through Holt’s special needs process. Here, Fred describes their life-changing journey for — and with — their daughter, Marianna Wei. Our adoption journey was filled with the usual things all adoption journeys are known for…frustration, anxiety, expense, delays, etc. We decided to go on the path of Chinese children with [...] Share Feeling grateful and inspired after adopting their daughter, Zoe, from Korea in 2010, Maryann and Cap Post decided to have a celebration — inviting 150 friends and family members. Instead of gifts, they asked for donations to Holt’s Special Needs Adoption Fund. What happened next, quite simply, blew them away. by Robin Munro, Senior Writer When Maryann [...] Share
Gianna, 8, and her little sister Daisy, 3. Both were adopted from China — Gianna in 2005 and Daisy on Mother’s Day of 2010! Tweet Share Please submit your photos by April 30th to be featured in A Day in the Life of International Adoptees photo book! A Day in the Life of International Adoptees (working title) is a photo book that will depict — you guessed it! — a day in the life of international adult adoptees! The book will include [...] |
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