Directory

Adoption Ally - mother of three - one home-grown, two hand-picked.

Adopted Eunmi - twenty-one-year-old Korean adoptee from Minneapolis, spent time with her birth family in Korea

Bob Miller - director of not-for-profit Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc.

Carla Birnberg - journalist, noted health/fitness columnist, and author of the book, The Whole Megillah: Mitzvahs, Matzo Balls and Everything in Between. Carla and her husband adopted their daughter from Guatemala in 2006.

Dee - adoptive mom of two older children who came home at 10 and 13. Her struggles are similar, yet different to most families who adopt older children from orphanages.

DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) is the world’s largest private DNA testing laboratory.

Elizabeth Brueseke - adopted a boy from Guatemala in 2005, CASA volunteer

Emily Peery - has three siblings who were adopted from Romania, adopted son as an infant through a domestic open adoption, started a Web site, Adoption Utah

Jeanette Snell - has been a licensed foster parent in California for 16 years. She specializes in teen girls and teen moms.

John - former commercial airline pilot who has adopted four boys from domestic foster care as a single parent

Juanita was 15 years old when she discovered she was pregnant. Well, she discovered it when her mom took her to an OBGYN for a pregnancy test. Her mother then insisted that she have an abortion. Juanita was emotionally immature, looking for love and acceptance and she never considered that she might get pregnant. She didn’t know what else to do, so she obeyed her mother who set everything up. She is now 35 years old.

Lee - proud dad of a Guatemala-born son

Lisa Finneran - 6-year-old twins adopted from Arkhangel'sk, Russia, founded the non-profit ArkAngels for Russian Orphans

Nancy Spoolstra - Adoptive parent, adoption professional

Open Adoption Mom - full time mom by way of three open independent (non agency) adoptions.

Patricia Dischler - the author of "Because I Loved You: A Birthmother's View of Open Adoption", a speaker, child care professional and birthmother. You can read more from Patricia .

Rostovcuties - an adoptive single mom to 4 cuties from the Rostov-on-Don region of Russia. She is a physician who works with children with chronic health care needs including children with HIV-infection and those adopted internationally. She also writes a family blog.

S - loving parent of a Guatemalan born child

Scrapsbynobody - doubled the size of her family through older child, large sibling group, transracial, foster adoption. She also writes a family blog.

Sherry Dittmar - mom to two brothers who came home on 12-16-00 through kinship adoption; Ronnie age 12 who has special needs and Joseph age 10. Then she had a surprise biological miracle child Wyatt who is six. She has two preborn angels in Heaven. She found Kyden who was born 8-20-07 came home 2-1-08, she is blind. Sherry also hopes to become mom to a Haitian special needs orphan someday. Read more at her personal blog.

Snafu Suz - a 40-something writer, cancer survivor, and aspiring mom. She and her husband are currently approved to adopt and are waiting to be matched with a sibling group of 2 or 3 through the foster system. You can read about Susan’s life adventures by visiting her two Seattle PI blogs: Lemon Margaritas and Adoption Adventures. Her adoption blog can also be found at SeattleMomBlogs.com.

Starfish Mama -  adopted children from the United States, Eastern Europe and Africa

Sunshine31 - Sunshine31 and her partner are licensed foster parents in Indiana and cared for two young relatives for nearly two years. The girls have been returned to their birthmother. The foster family is devastated because they know, through other family relatives, that the situation has not changed. Sunshine31 is speaking out to advocate for changes in a broken foster care system.

VirginiaC - single mom adopted from Russia