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Showing Love for Everyone in the Adoption Triad

With Valentine’s Day coming up, it’s time to start thinking about your loved ones and showing them how much they mean to you. While Valentine’s Day is often reserved for romantic significant others, it’s important to let all of your loved ones know how much you love and care for them on this holiday. For […]

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5 Ways Adoptive Parents Can Acknowledge the Birth Family during the Holidays

  Finding time to squeeze everything in during the holidays can be a challenge. The season seems to speed by in a whirlwind of balancing everyone’s schedules, finishing up holiday shopping and snapping family pictures. While it can be easy to get caught up in the to-do lists during these hectic weeks, it’s important to […]

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Documenting Your Child’s Adoption Story

An adopted child’s story does not end with placement. It is a lifelong journey filled with ups and downs, big steps, and a lot of special moments. Documenting important moments are special for every child, but with adopted children, the story starts sooner. The journey starts before the child is even aware. For adopted children, […]

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Celebrate the Entire Family with These 4 Fun Activities

No matter what side of an adoption you are on, being able to get together with everyone involved for some fun activities can help to solidify connections and relationships. If you are in an open adoption, this would be a great opportunity to get your family together with the birth parents or other extended family. […]

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Why We Love BraveLove’s (un)Wanted Campaign

“Loss is not a path we would typically choose. Yet every story of adoption begins with a woman and the voluntary loss of that which she loves most. All around us are people- friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family- whose lives have been forever changed by this Brave Love.”- BraveLove, (un)Wanted. When I tell people that […]

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A Social Worker’s Role at Thompson Dove Law Group

We strongly believe adoption practice is a hybrid, combining both law and social work. The adoption statute creates a symbiotic relationship between the bar and social services professionals: neither can accomplish an adoptive placement without reliance on the other for some component of the adoption. In any given case, an agency may place a child […]

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What It Is Really Like to Choose Adoption

Kudos to Cosmopolitan for their incredible article What It’s Really Like to Place Your Baby For Adoption. It is important for all expectant mothers and families looking to adopt to know that every family is different and no two stories are the same. Cosmopolitan interviewed four birth mothers who placed their child for adoption and […]

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Helping Women Grow Body, Mind and Soul

Over the next few months, Thompson Dove Law Group will be running a series aimed at recognizing the strength and benevolence of all birth parents. Our first feature of this series was Bravelove. This month, we will focus on Big Tough Girl, a blog dedicated to helping women grow body, mind and soul.   “There […]

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Birth Parent Series: BirthMom Buds

Over the next few months, Thompson Dove Law Group will be running a series aimed at recognizing the strength and benevolence of all birth parents. Our newest feature is BirthMom Buds, an organization and website that provides peer counseling, support, encouragement, and friendship to birth moms as well as pregnant women considering adoption.  Placing a […]

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Our Greatest Wish For Birth Mothers

Over the next few months, Thompson Dove Law Group will be running a series aimed at recognizing the strength and benevolence of all birth parents. Our first feature is Bravelove. Not-for-profit charity organization, Bravelove has taken a stance in the adoption movement to support birth mothers and acknowledge their brave decision. They believe that, “so […]

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