Parenting After Adoption

There are so many places I can go with this blog. When I stop to ponder just how many, I feel overwhelmed with the enormity of it. I also feel excited. In the weeks that I considered whether to return, I began a list of possible topics. Now I simply need to get busy researching and writing.

To begin, here is my vision for Parenting after Adoption.

As the domain and title of this blog suggest, it is about parenting children after they have been adopted. As such, I will not write as much about pre-adoption topics, though I will lightly cover them occasionally. I may occasionally touch on children in foster care, but I will leave in depth coverage to Foster Parents Online. I will discuss all aspects of the adoption triad, but only as it relates to an adopted child. For example, I will write about a child’s first family from the context of a child who has been adopted, but not in the context of a child whose mother might choose a parenting plan that includes adoption.

Not that these topics are not important nor that I believe they are not a part of the whole adoption experience, but because I can only cover a finite number topics per month if I want to give some depth to the information and issues. And . . . because the title of this particular blog is Parenting after Adoption.

Since this is a blog about parenting, the heaviest emphasis will obviously be toward parenting. Since parenting after adoption can mean more than parenting an adopted child, I will branch out to various aspects of “after adoption” that include the experiences of adoptees (child and adult) and first families who parent after adoption. The latter includes both those who parent other children after choosing adoption for one of their children as well as those who are a part of their child’s life through open adoption.

As you can see, there are so many forks in the road on just parenting after adoption.

My first-hand experience is limited to parenting a child over the age of five who came from another country and is of an ethnic and racial background different from mine. Much of my writing will be from my point of view. I will include other points of view as much as humanly possible. Be it through reviewing books, drawing attention to other blogs or inviting guest writers to submit articles.

To that end, I edited the categories to reflect the focus of Parenting after Adoption, and I am editing all of the entries so they are categorized appropriately. They are broad and will cover many possible sub-categories.

Please do contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.

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