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Share “Special Needs” is just a label. Children are waiting, right now, for families. When it comes to finding homes for children with special needs, Holt and RainbowKids.com, an online adoption advocacy group, share the same ambition and the same passion: do all we can to help children labeled “special needs” find their forever homes. With each Waiting [...]  Share The McBride family finds joy in two blessings from China. Wyeth came home in 2010, their daughter, Channing, in 2011. By Jason and Ryan McBride We read an interesting comment on an adoption blog recently. It said: “My infertility is a blessing.” It was made by a woman who had adopted two children of her own, then [...] 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 Holt adoptive mom Mary Leigh Brown has adopted twice — both times coming home from Korea with a child who has a special need. To help advocate for other children who need families, she regularly blogs about the children on Holt’s waiting child photolisting (at someshadesofbrown.blogspot.com). In March, Mary Leigh wrote about Berk, our featured waiting child. Berk Birthday: November [...] Share *Jordan needs a family Birthday: January 1st, 2004
One afternoon, in a care center in Southeast Asia, a caregiver was going from room to room, tidying up while the children played nearby. As she finished up in the last room, she walked to the door, put her hand on the knob and turned it. The door wouldn’t [...] Share by Robin Munro, Senior Writer From China. Date of Birth: June 1, 2003 Jack* is a child with a gentle soul. As his teachers say, he is “a delight.” I met Jack last summer in a northern province of China, where he was abandoned at birth eight years ago. A sweet boy with a warm and open smile, [...] Share UPDATE: As of December 2011, Sam has a family! Thank you to everyone who shared his story. And congratulations to Sam! by Robin Munro, Senior Writer DOB: 7/5/2007 Sam discovers Minnie! I met Sam* this past summer at an orphanage in northern China. When I saw his face recently posted to the Waiting Child photolisting, I thought, I [...] Share *Trent Needs a Family by Ashli Keyser, managing editor DOB: March 13, 2007, Africa Two months after I started work at Holt International, I helped advocate for the adoption of “Melissa”, an almost 14-year-old girl from China who, in just four months, would lose her international adoption eligibility. It would be the first time that I really [...] Share Adoptive parent Jane Ballback discusses internationally adopted children’s need for perfectionism As you read the title of this blog, you are probably thinking, what in the world is she going to talk about? Adoptive parents might be offended by this title, implying that somehow adoption was a “second-best” option. That is not what [...] Share by Robin Munro, Senior Writer Born in Africa, DOB: January 15, 2003 I saw her face, and I just knew. That’s my child. This is a story told time and again by adoptive families. They see a face, just a face, and they know. This is a special child. This is my child. In an article for Holt’s winter [...] |
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