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Naming Your Child: Reaching Agreement

My husband and I could not agree on a name for a baby boy. While his ideas for girls’ names (mostly names that sounded like porn stars) and my ideas for girls’ names (too “Southern belle,” according...

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Naming Your Child: Semi-open Adoption

When my husband and I were considering baby names, we never once thought about inviting an expecting mother’s input into the process. If I had known that this was even an issue, I probably would have...

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Naming Your Child: Open Adoption

As I mentioned in my last post, Naming Your Child: Semi-open Adoption, my husband and I never considered asking for input on our son’s name from his then-placing mother. Perhaps we should have done...

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Naming Your Child: Using Family Names

When we were going through our home study, our social worker suggested that we read several books about adoption. I disagreed with many of the suggestions provided in one of the books, but the issue...

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Naming Your Child: International Adoption

As you can see from the “Related Topics” at the bottom of this post, naming a child who joins your family through international adoption is a hot topic in the adoption community. Some people believe...

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Naming Your Child: Older Children

One controversial area of naming your child really surprised me – naming your older adopted child. I just assumed that when people adopted a child who was old enough to talk and identify himself by...

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Naming Your Child: Some Final Words

A child’s name is a loving gift that we bestow upon a child. Naming a child carries with it a big responsibility. Most of us know people who dislike their names for various reasons. We want a child’s...

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Name It, Claim It

I was talking with some friends over the screams of our children just yesterday, one of whom blogs here, and she was recounting a discussion she had on a Yahoo! adoption list. The discussion at hand...

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Open Adoption Roundtable: Naming

This week’s Open Adoption Roundtable topic is: Write about names/naming and open adoption. When you adopt, naming isn’t necessarily straightforward. You have many choices: Keep the name the child’s...

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Keeping Busy During the Wait

Adoption is filled with emotional highs and lows. One of the most difficult times during the adoption journey is “the wait” for a referral or match with a birthmother. It is an unknown length of time....

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One Name to Unite Us?

When I got divorced last year, it made sense for me to keep my married name. I got married during graduate school, so my entire post-education career had been conducted under that name. It was my...

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