Ethiopia January 25, 2013 Notice: Notes from Ambassador Jacobs’ Meeting with Adoption Service Providers on December 11, 2012 in Addis Ababa During a visit to Addis Ababa from December 8-11, 2012, Ambassador Susan Jacobs, Special Advisor for Children’s Issues, met with the staff of U.S.-based Adoption Service Providers (ASPs). The Office of Children’s Issues posts this notice to provide interested …
Category: Adoption Education
Cautionary Statement for Families Considering Special Needs and Older Child Adoption
Cautionary Statement for Families Considering Special Needs and Older Child Adoption As the landscape of international adoption has changed over the past few years, we’ve seen an increasing number of families opening their homes and hearts to older children, sibling groups and children with special needs. We at PEAR are certainly heartened by this admirable trend but would be remiss …
RESOURCE: EMK Press Article Collection
In response to the Hansen case, EMK Press and other adoption professionals put together an article collection called Realistic Expectations: The First Year Home that can be freely downloaded at the following link: http://www.emkpress.com/realisticexpectations.html PEAR recommends that prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents help prepare themselves for parenting challenges by reading the 21 articles in the collection that span topics …
Prospective Adoptive Parent Bill of Rights
Competent Providers: Prospective adoptive parents have the right to an adoption service provider with appropriate high-quality adoption services. Prospective adoptive parents have the right to receive a complete list of qualifications of all providers of adoption-related services. Qualifications include both adoption-related education and training. Ethical Program: Prospective adoptive parents have the right to an ethical and economical adoption program. Prospective …
Announcing Ethica’s Webinars for Prospective Adoptive Parents
http://www.ethicanet.org/item.php?recordid=webinars&pagestyle=default Ethica is pleased to offer its first webinar series for prospective adoptive families as they begin to pursue the adoption process. Please join us as we explore issues surrounding adoption fraud, how to choose an agency, and the implications of adopting from a “Hague” country. Note that *space is limited* so please register early. Thank you! *Webinar** 1: February …
Helping Adoptive Parents Understand the Role of Families of Origin: From the Viewpoint of Another Mother Who Lost her Child to Adoption
~by Suz Bednarz How could I, me, a mother who lost a child to adoption in 1986, possibly help adoptive parents understand the role of families of origin? Didn’t my role end the minute my child was taken from me and given to them? Harsh question but until a few years back that is what I was lead to believe. …
Helping Adoptive Parents Understand the Role of Families of Origin: From the Viewpoint of a Mother who lost a child to adoption
~ by Mirah Riben The United Nations has determined that the difference between a good and bad life for a child is a mother with a sense of empowerment. Adopting a child today is far different than it was a generation or two ago when it was felt best to keep the entire process secretive. Adopting today requires accepting the …
PEAR Announces it’s Education Project
Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform (PEAR) announces it’s new initiative to develop a model education program for adoptive parents. We believe that all parents should receive a comprehensive and realistic education prior to adopting. PEAR also feels many parents come to adoption inadequately prepared for the challenges of adoption. We hope to create a parent friendly HONEST education program that …