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The most important thing you will do in preparing for the complicated adoption process is to gather and research the most current information available. Adoption is Extremely Complicated. Don’t do it (without…
First time I have Halloween with my Amarican family I have so much fun. I was a princess in the Halloween. In Russia I never had Halloween, before, but now I…
For two of my daughters, inconsistency in needs being met and the rotating caregivers that provided for those needs made up the incubator that caused RAD child development to thrive. Reactive Attachment Disorder:…
My wife and I had three sons biologically before adoption added another six. (It’s a long story…) Three of our children that we adopted have Reactive Attachment Disorder. One has been diagnosed…
Of course it has nothing to do with nationality, but that is what Sarah perceived. She was too inexperienced to understand her statement as judgmental, nationalistic, politically incorrect, or anything other than…
We adopted my oldest daughter from Russia when she was fifteen. She’s twenty-three now and I marvel at how far she has come. Emily has intellectual disabilities but she has learned to…
My wife’s father was a notorious sex felon. She left her first family at fifteen and entered the foster system where the form of abuse changed without stopping. She could relate to…
Emily with her Dad, John, and Grandfather, Bill, the first time they met. Orphinige kids been mean to me. They told me don’t go to Amarica. Kids from orphinge say that Amarican…
The outside of our current home is not nearly as impressive as the feelings were inside the most humble place our family has ever lived. Neither Amy nor I came from money.…
Teaching kids responsibility: My grandpa, Merlin D. Simmons, picking seed peas on the family farm with his father, uncle, siblings and cousins. Circa 1920 My grandpa thought teaching kids responsibility was easy. In his…
We need to find homes for orphans to go home to. Alright, maybe “orphans” is the wrong word. Heaven knows that word has been brutalized for monetary purposes. There are “children of…
Emily's house on Sofkhoznay (Community Farm) Road in Fralovka, Russia. First I went with my dad from Russia and I am helping to my Russian dad like put bucket in the wail.…