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Originally published at Crossroads of America Adoption Conference, re-published with permission. Growing up in Nebraska, Aaron watched Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego Monday-through-Friday on the carpet while eating a bag of Ruffles potato chips. As a result, to this day he has high cholesterol and can recite nearly every word to the theme ...

Has anyone seen the public service announcement adoption commercials currently airing on Bravo TV? There are amusing 30 second spots with well meaning parents clearly making egregious faux pas in the eyes of their kids. What is so amusing is that even if you are not someone’s parent, you are certainly someone’s child and everyone ...

Friday night’s upcoming opening ceremonies mark the official start of the 2012 London Olympic Games. As each participating country is presented during the Parade of Nations, led by a representative with their nation’s flag, we here at MLJ Adoptions thought we’d take a look at the meaning behind some of our program countries’ flags. John ...

I attended a conference recently where guest speaker, Juli Alvarado, discussed a trauma informed paradigm she created, called Emotional Regulatory Healing (ERH). Alvarado described ERH, as “an integrative, theory based, trauma informed, and whole culture approach to healing of trauma.” She stated that the objective of ERH is to maximize a person’s ability to build ...

Attunement (noun): being or bringing into harmony; a feeling of being "at one" with another being. Think about the strongest relationships in your life. The person you call when you really need someone who gets it. How do you know they “get it?” What is special about those relationships? How does that relationship make you ...

For more information on each country please click on the country name: Bulgaria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Nicaragua, Samoa, Ukraine.

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. The Imagine Cup 2012 theme: Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems, inspired many student teams to address the problems faced by differently-abled individuals. Twenty-three percent of Imagine Cup projects this year were created to improve the lives of individuals with ...

Heidi Weimer is one of the Keynote Speakers and Breakout Session Leaders at this year’s Crossroads Of America Adoption Conference. Heidi leads a very busy life being a wife, a mother, a children’s book author, an adoption advocate, a blogger and believe it or not, a song writer. It’s an honor to have her, and ...

This past weekend, US adoptive parents adopting from Ghana were detained at the airport after police received an anonymous tip accusing them of child trafficking. During the detainment, their two biological children were placed in a nearby orphanage until their parents were released. They have now been cleared to bring their biological children home, but ...