“Childhood 5” Painting by Alemayehu Wariyo
The subject of early puberty in adopted children is a delicate one but it’s something we adoptive parents need to talk about. This phenomenon is, of course, more noticeable in girls. If you plan to adopt a girl older than [...]

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Photograph by Nakeya Brown I haven’t written about hair for a while, probably because the subject has turned from novelty to routine. What has changed in our home though is going from styling one girl’s hair to styling two. What I usually do [...]

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Last night I watched the documentary Somewhere Between. The director, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, went to explore the lives of four teenagers, all of them adopted from China as babies or young children. She wanted to find the answers to future questions her own baby daughter also adopted from China would [...]

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I’ve been reading and interesting book, The World of Girls and Boys in Rural and Urban Ethiopia by Eva Poluha. When you adopt a child from a different culture than yours specially if she’s an older child, it is important to know how much of her behavior has to do with his [...]

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