by Julie McGue | Jun 12, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
What Is Late Discovery Adoption? Julie McGue Author Ever heard of ‘late discovery adoption’ or LDA? It’s a term that describes an unfortunate scenario: adoptive parents keep their child’s adoption a secret from them. The adoptee discovers later in their life...
by Julie McGue | Jun 5, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
When Should Adoptees Learn Of Their Adoption? Julie McGue Author If you are an adoptive parent, you should be considering when is the right time to tell your child he is adopted, not if you will do it at all. Putting off the ‘adoption talk’ with an adopted...
by Julie McGue | May 29, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
How Do You Honor The Dad You Never Met? Julie McGue Author I could use some advice. We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of my father’s death and I’m uncertain about how to honor it. You see, my father was a mystery to me. It’s not that I didn’t...
by Julie McGue | May 22, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
Why Does My Birthday Make Me Sad Julie McGue Author For a lot of folks, birthdays are complicated. Over the course of my sixty years of life, celebrating my birthday has run the spectrum from joyous to tentative to dread and back to being a special occasion. As...
by Julie McGue | May 15, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
Quirky DNA Test Results Julie McGue Author For Christmas I purchased DNA test kits for my adult children and their spouses (see blog post 12/17: “Ancestry Test Kits”). My husband and I completed our testing a few years back, and we’ve all been eager to receive...
by Julie McGue | May 8, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
Birth Mothers Have Their Own Day Julie McGue Author Mother’s Day, traditionally celebrated on the second Sunday in May, is fast approaching. Did you know that National Birth Mother’s Day is celebrated each year on the day before Mother’s Day? As is...
Touched By Adoption Blog
Recent Comments