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Interview with Carly Shelander, Placement Coordinator for Cradle of Life for 10 Year Anniversary Our Placement Coordinator, Carly, is celebrating her ...
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You have prepared mountains of paperwork, finished your background checks, received your references, and completed the adoption training classes and ...
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You're probably here looking for support, because you don't know where else to run to, so you're looking into every blog post or experience you can ...
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How to best support your friend/family member that is going through the adoption process: Adoptive Families. Just by reading this you are showing your ...
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How to best support your friend/family member that is going through the adoptive process: Expectant/Birth Families. First off thank you for supporting ...
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What is the basic process for adoptive families with a licensed agency? First step is the initial application process, next comes the homes study (3-6 ...
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When should I first call Cradle of Life? As soon as you are ready. We have worked with parents who just received their first positive pregnancy test, ...
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“I never expected to feel this way” This is one of the most common statements we hear in the wake of an adoption placement and throughout the adoption ...
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The match made between adoptive and birth family is one of the most important aspects of adoption. We not only look at the match between the birth and ...
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A very common question asked in the first meeting with an expectant or adoptive parent is what are the different types of adoption and what kind of ...
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When taking a pregnancy test most people are hoping for one result or the other. When that result comes up a thousand thoughts start filtering in. For ...
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This is my adoption story as an infant adoptee from a voluntary adoption agency. I preface with that sentence as I believe it explains why I feel the ...
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The question of how to start the adoption process is one that every Adoptive Family has at the beginning of their journey. With all of the different ...
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If we had to do it all over again, we wouldn’t change a thing. We started dating in the mid-2000’s. At that time, two females dating was not ...
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There are many misconceptions and misunderstandings in the adoption world. One of the most misunderstood concepts is that of what an adoption agency ...
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As we will be asking past clients to share their stories we feel it is only fair that we also share our stories as well. This is mine. As a placement ...
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As we will be sharing stories of past clients and hopeful clients in the series, we find it is only fitting to first share the story of why and when ...
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