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Our current issue includes been-there advice for parenting children with FASD; one woman's emotional tale of discovering her dormant, inner mom; a father who thought he'd heard it all through 15 years of parenting transracially on the interaction that left him speechless; and more.

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What's Inside the New Issue:

"I Needed a Different Parenting Handbook..." — "Belated diagnoses of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) changed the way I parented both of my children, and the way I savored our successes."

"Finding My Inner Mom" — “For years, I felt ambivalence about becoming a parent, and worry that I wouldn’t be a 'perfect' mother. Here, I look back on that moment of utter clarity when we met."

"I Can Still Be Shocked" — "Fifteen years into parenting in a transracial family, I thought I had heard it all—with appropriate comebacks at the ready—until this interaction left me simply dumbfounded."

"When I Knew I Was Going to Adopt" — Parents share the moment they knew in their hearts that their path to parenthood would involve adoption, whether they'd always known or it came after years of trying to conceive.

Ask AF: How to Cope with the Disappointment of Not Being Chosen; Talking About Birth Siblings in Closed Adoption
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Thank you to this issue's sponsors:
Adoptions from the Heart | Children’s Connections Inc. | National Background Check
Dr. Jane Aronson | Ellyn J. Bullock, Solberg & Bullock, LLC | Texas Children’s Hospital