Dream Family: The Family I always Wanted
While not everything in my childhood was bad, very little in my home resembled my dream family. Moments of joy were surrounded by terror and... Read More →
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The RAD Child Development Called Reactive Attachment Disorder
For two of my daughters, inconsistency in needs being met and the rotating caregivers that provided for those needs made up the incubator that... Read More →
My Mom in Russia She Very Bad and Nobody Taught Her. She Died and Make me so Sad
[Several places in this article, Emily talks about herself and her mother from Russia in a way that makes it confusing to know who, exactly, she... Read More →
Girls From Russia are Hard (It’s not Russia, Though)
Of course it has nothing to do with nationality, but that is what Sarah perceived. She was too inexperienced to understand her statement as... Read More →
When Adopted Children Don’t Feel Safe at Home
My wife’s father was a notorious sex felon. She left her first family at fifteen and entered the foster system where the form of abuse changed... Read More →
Making Home Feel Like Home: Family, Happiness and Love in Spite of Challenges
The outside of our current home is not nearly as impressive as the feelings were inside the most humble place our family has ever lived. Neither... Read More →
First Time I See My Family Again
First time I never saw my sisters, because I abused them and I went to jail. [Emily was quite violent when she came home, only because that is... Read More →
My Dad and the Farm in Russia
First I went with my dad from Russia and I am helping to my Russian dad like put bucket in the wail. [The water used in Emily’s house in Russia... Read More →
I Have Lots of Problems About my Life
First I came to Amarica, first I make bad choices. And when I come to Amarica I been mean to my family and also friends. I been in lots... Read More →
Challenge Limits Instead of Limiting Challenges
We challenge limits instead of limiting challenges in our family. Rippling biceps; six pack abs; toned calves and thighs… yep; that’s how my... Read More →
Orphans: I’m Tired of Hearing it.
Western society was shocked in the mid 1990s when we heard that there were 132 million orphans in the world. As good hearted people took this... Read More →
My Lydia
[This week Emily’s blog would have required tons of brackets for explanations, so I decided to create a document that gives the basic history of... Read More →
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