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My Choice Blog
My Choice contains both self curated and shared content to help all involved in the adoption process.


You Have Rights: Knowing Your Options in the Face of Child Welfare
Are you worried about Child Protective Services taking your child ? If you are facing challenges like substance use or unstable housing...
May 16


Emily's Story: An Adoption Journey
We have had so much fun sharing these beautiful adoption stories for National Adoption Month. Today, we're sharing Emily's adoption...
Nov 27, 2023


Adoption Stories: Ask an Adoptee
Meet Courtney Courtney is a Portland native, with a passion for pizza and an artistic appreciation for Adele's latest album (and Taylor...
Nov 17, 2022


4 Adoption Myths (BUSTED)
What does it mean to “rethink adoption”? It means that adoption has been around for a very long time, and it’s changed a lot! As a...
Jun 3, 2022


Black History Month Adoption Stories: Simone Biles
If you have watched Simone Biles compete in the Olympics as a gymnast, it is evident that she is strong.
Feb 25, 2021


Adoption is a Fight! Open Adoption From an Adoptive Father's Perspective.
After 1 ½ years of home-study paperwork, meetings, classes, a lot of prayer, and just plain waiting, we finally connected with a birth mom
Jan 21, 2021


Open Adoption: Life is Always Created at the Right Time
An unplanned pregnancy is never a thing to our God.
Life is always created at the right time.
Jan 14, 2021


What is Open Adoption? How to Choose the Right Adoption Plan for Your Baby in 2021.
In this post you are going to learn exactly what Open Adoption is and what your choices are for creating an adoption plan, step by step.
Jan 7, 2021


An Unexpected Pregnancy Does Not Disqualify Anyone. Just Ask Mary.
Every year we remind each other that Christmas isn’t always jolly for everyone in our community.
Dec 23, 2020


Last Minute Adoption Placement
It was 9:00 pm on a normal Wednesday night when a Choice Adoptions advocate received a phone call from a young woman named Tara.
Dec 14, 2020


Thanksgiving and Adoption
And at the exact same time, it’s also one of the hardest days for kids (and adults) who have been adopted.
Nov 27, 2020


We are so thankful for you.
No one has ever said adoptions are easy. They're not... especially in 2020.
Nov 25, 2020


Be Still and Know...
Mike and Jessica began their adoption journey with Choice in April of 2017. They knew from the time that they got married that they were cal
Nov 13, 2020


5 Questions You Can Ask Yourself to Keep a Child Out of Foster Care
Too many children are neglected and abused in America and end up in foster care. Our society is broken...
Nov 2, 2020


Caring for Birth Parents is Part of Adoption: Stop Separating the Two.
As a waiting family, we get all sorts of opinions and comments about our decision to adopt. Some are supportive...
Oct 14, 2020


Transracial Adoption Is So Powerful: The Gift Of Openness In Adoption, Part Two
Adoption. AD-option. This is all I could hear in my mind the day I found out I was pregnant for the second time.
Oct 7, 2020


The Gift of Openness in Adoption
My encouragement to the prospective adoptive parents and the pregnant women considering their options is to communicate.
Sep 30, 2020
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