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 →
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Orphans and Homes for Them to go Home to
We need to find homes for orphans to go home to. Alright, maybe “orphans” is the wrong word. Heaven knows that word has been brutalized for... Read More →
How I Learned to Cope with Death. It’s Easier than you Think.
I first learned to cope with death as I walked away from a Russian orphanage with my new daughter, shrieking in my arms. Of all the places I... 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 →
Bad Behavior in our Adopted Children; Is There a Trigger?
There almost always seems to be a trigger when my wife and I see bad behavior in our adopted children. When two of them get milk, they turn... 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 →
Empathy is Probably not What you Think it is.
I had always understood empathy to be trying to imagine myself in someone else’s shoes, and then trying to understand how it would feel. I got it... Read More →
Russian Orphans: The Moisieva Koshkina Family
Recently we changed things in this document to correct erroneous information on the age of our daughters’ biological sibling, Vitaly (or... Read More →
Survivor Syndrome and Children Adopted From Orphanages
Survivor Syndrome has been rough on my daughter. Sarah had been home from Russia for five years when we met with her friends, in Spain. Those... Read More →
The Camp in Arizona
[About a year after Emily came home, she spent several weeks at a behavioral camp in Arizona. This week she wanted to write about her... Read More →
Out of an Orphanage and Into…
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Firsts
[This week Emily writes of “Firsts” that happened as she was adopted]. First time I went to restaurant and make me so happy.... Read More →
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