Failed adoption

Grieving a failed adoption is gut-wrenching. In adoption loss, here are four truths to help comfort you in your grief.

An adoptive mother reflects on a recent failed adoption placement and what she learned from the experience.

Famous moms like Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Charlize Theron have brought adoption into the limelight, and perhaps even made it look easy. But what happens, and who's to blame, when an adoption doesn’t work?In as many as a quarter of adoptions of teens, and a significant number of younger child adoptions, the parents ultimately decide they don’t want to keep the child, experts say.Writer Joyce

How common are failed adoption matches where expectant mom decides to parent? How much money do most adoptive parents lose? How to survive a failed match?

An adoptee's honest blog about what they feel their adoptive mom could have done differently or better. #blog #adoption #adoptee

Dear *Marcus, I was hesitant to write this post. As I write this, it’s the same time you accepted my friendship 10 months ago on Facebook: 11:45 p.m. On a weekend, remember? And then you were…