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Reminder about original adoption documents
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Dear Families:
You’re home and you’ve got a mountain of paperwork you’ve collected from the adoption process.
What do you keep and what don’t you keep?
How much of the pre-adoption paperwork you decide to keep is up to each individual family. Perhaps you want to keep all of it or perhaps you want to keep the significant [...]
Webinar: Adoption Basics for the Classroom
You have been talking to your child about adoption since he came home. But what about the time he spends at school? What does his teacher know about adoption? About birth parents? Does she know how to help him answer why he doesn’t look like his mom?
Join Debbie Riley, the Chief Executive Officer of The [...]
More Than Meets the Eye by Ilie Ruby
CWA is grateful to Ms. Ruby for allowing us to reprint the following article to share with all of our families.
Ilie Ruby is the mother of three children adopted from Ethiopia, and the author of a new novel, The Language of Trees (Avon HarperCollins), a story of love, loss, and second chances. Visit her online [...]
Readoption
Readoption is the process by which a U.S. court of law in the adoptive parents’ state of residence reviews the foreign adoption documents and formally recognizes the foreign adoption’s validity under state law. To the extent that the Court is satisfied that the requirements of the adoptive parents’ state laws have been met, the [...]
