Articles and fact sheets

Once upon a time there lived a princess so beautiful both inside and out that every man in her parents’ realm longed to marry her. After many months of grueling challenges, a noble, kind, and handsome prince won her hand, and they were married.As they left the palace of her parents to make their own […]

Excerpted from Chapter 9: “The Role of The Child Welfare/Social Worker” in Deborah Gray’s 2007 book Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

Excerpted from Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman Sterling’s Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

by Pat Johnston This article first appeared in the enewsletter and on the website of INCIID.org, for which Pat moderates three adoption boards.Similar material now appears in her newest bookAdopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families (2007)

A “user’s guide” to Joan McNamara’s children’s book Borya and the Burps!

by Pat Johnston and Wendy Williams

from Adopting After Infertility and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families by Pat Johnston

Popular songs providing comfort and empathy through the infertility journey.

from Flight of the Stork by Anne Bernstein

by Mary Hopkins-Best from Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft first appeared in the PNPIC Post in Autumn, 1997.

by Ellen Glazer is a provocative essay advocating against “embryo adoption” and for donation of “extra” embryos to stem cell research. It first appeared in the American Infertility Association’s newsletter.

by Vera I Fahlberg, M.D. is a part of the training material included in her books A Child’s Journey through Placement and Residential Treatment.

from Flight of the Stork by Anne Bernstein

by Susan Cooper and Ellen Glazer from their book Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional and Ethical Considerations.

by Vera Fahlberg, MD, was adapted from A Child’s Journey through Placement

Excerpted from Deborah Gray’s Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents.

by Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D., is an adaptation from her books A Child’s Journey through Placement and Residential Treatment and trainings.

from Taking Charge of Infertility by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston (first appeared in Adoption Today’s January 2001 issue)

by Pat Johnston (with help from her friends on the INCIID adoption boards), from Adoption Is a Family Affair! What Friends and Relatives Must Know

by Pat Johnston

by Pat Johnston and Wendy Williams from a book in process

by Pat Johnston, adapted from Launching a Baby’s Adoption and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

(Building a sense of entitlement…are you the “real parent”?) by Pat Johnston, first appeared in Roots & Wings magazine after being adapted from Adopting after Infertility. It is now included in Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

by Pat Johnston, adapted from Launching a Baby’s Adoption and now <Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

by Susan Cooper and Ellen Glazer from Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional and Ethical Considerations

is a new and expanded treatment of material already published in Pat Johnston’s books Launching a Baby’s Adoption and Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families, as well as in articles for Adoptive Families magazine, Pact Press, and Serono Symposia USA’s newsletter for professionals, Insights into Infertility. This is controversial stuff, but something all prospective adopters and couples reluctant to put treatment behind before adopting should read.

by Pat Johnston, explores the long-term psychological impact of infertility and discusses why resolving this issue is so important to future parenting relationships. Adapted from Taking Charge of Infertility, this article first appeared in the magazine Pact Press from Pact: An Adoption Alliance.

Activities for you or your group to try by Pat Johnston with the American Fertility Association.

A compiled list of quick, easy, cheap, last-minute ideas for observing AAM this November as well as a list of ideas for observations that will take a half year or more of pre-planning for next year!