Children Available for Adoption: Behind Magic Doors
There are children available for adoption. They probably aren't where you're looking, unless you happen to be looking behind magic doors. I spend a lot of time in the online adoption community…
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Orphanage
Natasha's Parents Cared for Me
Emily with her grandmother, my mother, Sharen SImmons In the orphinige people been mean to me. But girl, Natasha, she very nice. Her parents let me stay her house over night like Friday…
Emily's Introduction
Emily at her orphanage in Nicolaivka, Russia in 2005 I love my family because family important to me and also my family care about me and they give me life. I believe…
On Memorial Day I Remember Veterans and Happy Birthdays
Today, the Friday before Memorial Day, happens to be my daughter, Annie’s birthday. Though it may seem strange to you, I associate those two days. Annie left Russia to join our family…
Better off Without International Adoption? Not Hardly.
Oksana lived in half of this "Duplex" with her five children and three other adults. Of course there are days when I am ashamed of some of the people on my side…
Reactive Attachment Disorder World: Life is Never Boring
Emily Simmons days before leaving Russia for her new home in the U.S. Several of my children live in Reactive Attachment Disorder World. We're trying to teach them how to live in…
How to Soothe our Pain When we Can’t Help who we Want to Help
Some of my little friends from Far East, Russia Marina was seven and Jula was five, like my daughter-to-be. I don’t know how old Jenya, Maksím, André, Dasha, Ksenya and Natasha were,…
You Don’t Need to be as Wrong as I Was
Her name was Marina. She was one of the sweetest, prettiest, shyest little girls I had ever met. She was almost seven when she handed me a beautifully completed sheet from a…
A Mistake Adoptive Parents Never Need to Make Again
As Seen on Huffington Post Oh, I talk the talk. I try to walk the walk. When it comes to difficult circumstances, I always try to focus on what is best for…
The Real Reason for a Decline in Adoptions
As Seen on Adoption.net Recently, my Google alerts for “adoption” and “international adoption” went crazy. It seemed that every news outlet in the U.S. had picked up on the story. International adoptions…
Get Close Enough to Help People with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Psychologists call them triggers. They could be events, objects, sensory stimulations or even words. When a person who has experienced severe trauma is confronted with anything that they have psychologically associated with…
Something we All Agree on
One of my friends says he’s “probably an atheist.” Another friend says that evidence indicates there is a creator, but not a personal and active god. I’m a Christian. I have friends…