Adoption Ottawa - The Adoption Source

Welcome to my blog on adoption! Since retiring from my practice as a private adoption practitioner, I am no longer adding additional blog entries. However, I hope that the information contained within my past blogs will be of interest and help to those of you currently pursuing adoption. Happy reading! Lori

Adoption Then and Now: How times have changed since writing Rosie's Family.

Posted by Lori Rosove on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 In : Adoption

As I was packing an order of Rosie’s Family, An Adoption Story, this morning, I paused to reflect on how different my adoption practice was back in 2001 when I wrote this book. Back then, a significant proportion, if not the majority, of people that I prepared for adoption, successfully adopted internationally. While China, with its one child policy and open doors to international adoption, was at the forefront of the destinations that my clients chose, other Asian countries, such as Viet...

Don't Forget About the Goodness

Posted by Lori and Jordan Rosove on Thursday, April 25, 2013 In : Adoption

Well, it's been a while since I've written. It's definitely not because there hasn't been anything to write about, but moreso because I've been really busy with the actual work that I do. But now, after returning almost three weeks ago from a one week vacation where my husband and I chose Boston as our destination, I am taking the time to write. It was our first time there and we got home just before the terrible events of last Monday. Our hearts sank on hearing about this tragedy especially...

Baby With H.I.V. Is Deemed Cured?

Posted by Jordan Rosove on Monday, March 4, 2013 In : Adoption

Is it true? If so, what are the implications with the many children born with HIV around the world? This is definitely encouraging for the children, the communities they are born into, and the families who may be adopting them. Take a look: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/health/for-first-time-baby-cured-of-hiv-doctors-say.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0
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Adopted Seven Year Old Child Repeatedly Spanked Black and Blue

Posted by Lori Rosove on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 In : Adoption

What's the first feeling that comes to you when you read this title? Disgust, horror, fear, anger, sympathy? Perhaps all of those. What do we make of this situation? Let's get the first part out of the way. The parent, likely a full grown adult, intentionally brings physical harm to a little child. We can all agree that is just not acceptable. Now, let's get on to the fact that the child was adopted. Yes, this fact does make this situation seem even more reprehensible. Why? Well, for starters...
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It's a Beautiful Thing

Posted by Lori Rosove on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 In : Adoption

Last week, I had the honour of participating in a wonderful experience. As the counsellor to a lovely birth mother, who had chosen to place her newborn child for adoption, I was able to witness an abundance of love bestowed upon the central player in the adoption circle; the child. This love was shared and shown by the birth mother and the adoptive parents. How do I know that? When I see a birth mother expressing her newly created colostrum and giving the bottle to the adoptive parents to fe...
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