by RNE | Nov 10, 2015 | Adoption, Education, LGBT, Options
By Diane Tomaz, Director of Family Support Services Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) Of the more than 600 children in Massachusetts foster care, every last one wants a family and a place to call home. What does it take to adopt a child from...
by RNE | Sep 4, 2015 | Adoption, Advocacy, Announcements, Events, Infertility, LGBT, Support, Surrogacy
by Kerri Kivolowitz Infertility (IF) is a diagnosis that carries with it loss, isolation, guilt, doubt, depression, and surprisingly, hope; the ever-twinkling hope that this time it will be different. Six years ago, my husband and I decided we were ready to start a...
by RNE | May 6, 2015 | Adoption, Holidays, Infertility
When you are struggling to build your family, you don’t know when the painful pierces are going to strike. I do not mean injections or any other physical piercings related to fertility treatment. I mean the sudden emotional pierces. Sometimes I feel them literally in...
by RNE | Apr 14, 2015 | Adoption
Home Study is the process of evaluation and education that is required by each state in order for you to be approved to adopt a child. A good home study will not only provide the professional/agency with the information they are required to obtain for the study, but...
by RNE | Mar 16, 2015 | Adoption, IVF
For many years, I have been working with people struggling with infertility. During this time, I have seen treatments advance, alternative paths to parenthood arrive and people building or expanding their families in a variety of ways. Adoption, once a natural...
by RNE | Dec 1, 2014 | Adoption, ART, Donor Egg, IVF, LGBT, Options, Surrogacy
“So, which of you is the real Mom?” This is the kind of question, amongst many others, that LGBTQ families hear when they are out and about with their children, which thankfully is happening in growing numbers, even though the sensitivity of questions has yet to catch...