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EXPECTATIONS . . .
As adoptive parents, we have high hopes for our child(ren). This of course, is normal, as it would be also with our biological children....

Dr. Mark Andrews
May 31, 20202 min read


Sensory overload!!
Many years ago when our now 32-year-old son was only seven, I took him to Wal-Mart for the first time, only about a week after we adopted...

Dr. Mark Andrews
May 25, 20202 min read


I will not ask you to forgive me, the one who had to send you away like this
“I reproached myself for being so bad, and cried with my heart aching and tearing apart. I thought about raising you by myself, but it...

Dr. Mark Andrews
May 14, 20202 min read


Residual Suffering
“When you adopt, you are walking into someone’s suffering.”—I heard these words spoken a couple of years ago at an adoptive parents...

Dr. Mark Andrews
Apr 27, 20202 min read


“I wasn’t a keeper, was I?”
“Why did my birth mom not want me?”, cried five-year-old Samantha to her adoptive mom. For the past few months, Samantha’s parents had...

Dr. Mark Andrews
Apr 27, 20201 min read


Helping New Adoptive Parents
Many folks innocently believe that once a child has been adopted that “everything will be one now—he/she has a home and apermanent family...

Dr. Mark Andrews
Mar 16, 20202 min read
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