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

Adversity Makes Our Kids Stronger?

Posted by Lori Rosove on Thursday, May 10, 2012 In : Adoption 
In looking at the factors that protect young people from eating disorders and ideas of suicide, Dr. Martine Flament, director of the Youth Research Unit at the Royal Ottawa Hospital Health Care Group, says it is not the adverse situations that happen to children, but rather, the coping strategies they use to face everyday setback and traumatic events that makes all the difference. She reports that self esteem is the basis for developing healthy coping strategies. To build self esteem, childre...
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Post Adoption Blues

Posted by Lori Rosove on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 In : Adoption 
Your child's not sleeping well, you find yourself alone more than you've ever been, and you wonder if your presence in your child's life is more of a curse than a blessing. Be honest, people. Who hasn't experienced at least one of these conditions? Exhaustion, isolation, and self doubt are the accepted tenets of early parenthood, are they not? Note: I didn't say early biological parenthood. Why would these conditions apply only to those parents who gave birth to their child?  Is it possible t...
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Birth Fathers Really Do Care

Posted by Lori Rosove on Friday, February 10, 2012 In : Adoption 
What do birth fathers want?  Are their children important to them? Do they want to stay in contact with their birth children after they make a decision to place them for adoption? Do they think about their birth children after they've been adopted?

These questions are often assumed to be "nothing, no, no, and no."  But where is this information coming from? There are a lot of stereotypes floating around about birth fathers and most commonly, how minimally they participate in an adoption plan w...
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Adoption Stories

Posted by Lori Rosove on Thursday, January 19, 2012 In : Adoption 
Happy New Year Everyone! 
Sorry, it's a tad late, but the year has started off quite busy for us here at The Adoption Source. So much to do, so much to do! But, never too busy to let everyone know about an interesting adoption resource. The Ontario Today program on January 10 is just that. You can listen to several people present their adoption stories at http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2012/01/10/tuesday-adoption-stories/. While there, take a look at the comment made on January 10. It's brilli...
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Gift of Parenthood

Posted by Lori Rosove on Monday, December 26, 2011 In : Adoption 
During the holiday season, it's so easy to overlook the greatest gifts of all. The ones that can't be bought because they don't have a price. The ones that strike us in such a deep place that there is no option but to respond with tears. I read of such a gift on Dec. 22 when the Ottawa Citizen published this article on a family receiving their child:  http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/holiday-guide-2011/Gift+parenthood+still+leaves+tongue+tied/5896268/story.html.
I know you're gulping right no...
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