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It is hard to believe that a year has gone by and that we have reached our fifth issue of Holt’s Post Adoption e-newsletter. We have enjoyed reconnecting with our families and hope that you have found the newsletter informative. We thought this would be a good time to elicit your feedback. Please let us know what you think. Do you find the newsletter helpful? Do you like the format? Please Continue reading What Do You Think? When birth search is mentioned in the international adoption world, our minds usually drift to images of an Adoptee scouring through files and records, making pleas with foreign media outlets, or negotiating with foreign authorities in hopes of discovering some morsel of information that will lead to his or her Birth Family. However, these images only represent one idea of birth search; the Adoptee searching for the Birth Family in a foreign country. What many don’t realize is that Birth Parents from sending countries often search for their relinquished children in the U.S. This search process occurs through a concerted effort between the sending country agency and the placing agency in the U.S. This is one of our many post adoption services. Over the years, I’ve made several calls to unsuspecting Adult Adoptees informing them that their Birth Parents were searching for them. Responses vary. Adoptees have told me everything from Continue reading The Other Sides of Birth Search
Since the last e-newsletter, I have learned about a hormone often considered integral to self-regulation. Oxytocin has been called the anti-stress chemical, the love hormone, the soothing, healing, regenerative hormone – the human race’s “social glue.” It creates feelings of attachment and is responsible for making us feel loved and secure. The release of this hormone is a learned response. It is not automatic, like the adrenalin that releases when we are frightened. In fact, oxytocin is the body’s natural counteraction to adrenalin. Adrenalin hypes us up to fight or flee. When we realize there is no danger, oxytocin calms us back down. However, without proper nurturing care Continue reading Oxytocin “The Bonding Hormone”
Holt was the first to pioneer the concept of heritage tours in the 1970s, offering adoptees and their families professionally escorted visits to the adoptee’s birth country. Next year will be our sixth year to offer these tours to China. Our Family Tours, assisted by experienced guides and skilled Holt staff, include visits to famous tourist sites around China, cultural activities, as well as visits to the adoptee’s orphanage, finding site and foster family wherever possible. We are tentatively planning two Family Tours to China in Continue reading Holt’s 2011 Adoptee Tours to China Parents often call us asking if they need to have their child naturalized now that the adoption is final. The answer to this is easy – no. As long as your child was born on or after February 28, 1983, and you have a finalized adoption, your child is already a U.S. citizen. Naturalization is the process of asking permission to become a U.S. citizen. Adopted children now gain citizenship automatically and no longer Continue reading Does My Child Need to be Naturalized? |
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