After you bring your child/ren from Ethiopia, there are some extra legal steps you should take. The most known is the post-placement visits where the social worker that approved you for the Home Study comes back to check on the kids once they are home.There are at least three visits on the first year [...]

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Many of you might have seen that old movie “Bringing Up Baby” with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn about the rich girl with the leopard that falls in love with a paleontologist.Well, I’m not sure if Feven is closer to the character of Katharine Hepburn or the leopard. Yeah, I’m not kidding, she’s quite the [...]

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Since this is the first post of a series about Ethiopian names, I’ve decided to start with the name Abäba () since it is part of the name of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.The name means “a flower” and in its original form it’s a girl’s name. As is usual in Ethiopian names it can be [...]

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