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What is a Home Study

What is a Home Study? A Home study is…. A home study is an essential part of your preparation for adoption. It’s not just a simple visit – it’s a comprehensive evaluation that showcases your parenting abilities and provides valuable education to create a family profile. During the home study process, a social worker will...
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Adopting A Child With Special Needs

  Adopting a child with special needs can be one of the most rewarding and loving experiences of your life. Providing a child with a warm and supportive home, filled with love and care, can make all the difference in the world to their development and well-being. Perfectly healthy children are not the reality of...
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Why International Adoption?

Becoming a parent is an incredibly life-changing decision, and there are many ways to start a family. Adoption is one way that many individuals and couples choose. While of course it would be ideal to live in a world where every child can remain in the loving care of their birth family, or join a...
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How To Ease The Transition Of An Abused Child

Article written by Ricci Juno and is exclusively submitted to the Children’s House International Adoptions Adopting a child is a life changing action that is often a joyful event for both the adopter and the adoptee. Yet, it is also the case that many children who are adopted have had a traumatic past through being...
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Does India Allow International Adoption?

Yes it does. In fact, India has never closed it’s international adoption program. You do not need Indian heritage to adopt from India and there are over 1,000 waiting children that are in need of a loving family to adopt them. India does not allow photos of waiting children until after a family is approved,...
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Adopting an Older Boy

Article written by Heather Matthews on December 11, 2014 Our adoption story started nine years ago when my husband and I decided to create our family through adoption.  After a lot of research we decided that China was the right country for us, and later moved to China’s Waiting Child Program.  Seven years ago we...
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Adopting from Georgia

An interview with our Executive Director, Deborah Price What makes Georgia unique compared to other European programs and why should someone adopt from the country? Georgia is a Hague country with a central authority that is very thorough in their approach to making sure the children are available for adoption legally. It is a small...
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