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Handling Your Adopted Child's Persistant Lies

Follow these suggestions and keep your cool when your child lies. Persistent lying in children is quite common and is part of normal development.

2 comments    children parenting parents
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Avoiding Pregnancy Tips

With teenage pregnancy at an all time high, we as a society need to look back, and ask ourselves if the programs in place are working. It is my opinion, we have failed our children at the basic core. With...

4 comments    health advice how to
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Pro's and Con's of Adoption vs Abortion.

Before I begin this hub I would like to make it clear to all that abortion is NEVER a decision made lightly. Because I am pro-choice does not in any way mean that I am pro death, I simply support a woman's...

10 comments    family children kids
Irene Hutton profile image73

Adoption Gone Wrong and Experiencing the Empty Nest Syndrome

I like to share a segment from my book. A personal experience what happens when the adoptions is gone wrong. Adoption is great and I would like to take this opportunity to spread the word it is okay to adopt...

2 comments    life family children
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Pros and Cons of Adoption.

As you all know every coin has two sides...Like wise Adoption has its own positive and negative sides...Considering the moral values..Adoption is really good.. You are giving life to a kid.. You never know...

8 comments    life advice family
LizaCarlson profile image70

Letting Go, a birth mothers story, pt. 2

     The search began for a family more suitable than that which we had created. Both Chaz and I are from single-child families, and we agreed that we’d like our little one to have a sibling. Although...

0 comments    parents pregnancy choice
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Adopting a newborn

Many prospective parents are seeking to adopt healthy infants, often of a background similar to their own. Waiting times for infant adoptions can vary tremendously and can be as long as 2 years or more. A...

3 comments    hubchallenge baby parents
neon profile image59

Step-parenting and Sharing Authority

Being a step-parent is somewhat like being in middle management - you get the complaints from 'above' and 'below'. One way out of this dilemma is to step out from the middle and simply be part of 'senior...

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Happy Mother's Day, Mom!54

More than a Mom: Happy Mother's Day!

My life has never been a particularly easy one. I've faced things during the last thirty years that I would never wish on anyone, and I have walked through my own personal fire on more than one occasion. I...

10 comments    family children child
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POSSESSING PARENTAL POWER

 I will start by saying that I am a single mother of a 17 year-old young man; very handsome too I might add.  This young man changed my life 11 years ago when I made the conscious decision to adopt.  That...

0 comments    parenting adopt foster care
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