Adam Webster
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Adam Webster is the author of numerous health and family related articles and books.
You can find his latest Parenting articles at http://www.squidoo.com/successfulparenting/
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Foster Parenting: A Leap Towards Adoption
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Adoption
- Unrated
A family is supposedly composed of a loving mother, a hardworking father, and happy children. Well, at least this is the idea behind having a family. Although expected to be, families aren’t always that ideal. However, its imperfection and flaws that make them unique and one of a kind. In the real world, families come in all its different forms, some are a little bit odd while others are fairly simple. But whatever they are comprised of and what ever they will be in the near future, they are still our own little family.
When Foster Care Is Safer Place Than Home
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Family Matters
- Unrated
Foster care is considered only to be a temporary solution to an existing birthparent-child problem. Children turned over to foster homes were either abandoned, neglected, victims of physical abuse, or there are no available caretakers. Other reasons include sexual abuse and failed placement.
How To Find Adoptive Parents
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Adoption
- Unrated
Placing your baby for adoption is a life-changing decision. As young birthmothers put it, it’s like losing a limb or a part of oneself. However, being too young to become a mother, being single, and a lack of support can all make a young mother consider adoption and find adoptive parents despite its heart-wrenching ordeal.
Ethan Chronicles: Dealing with Child Loss
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Kitchen Table Talk
- Unrated
The great nation of America lost more over 600,000 lives during all of the wars they had since 1775; however only throughout the last century, over 3 million people have already died in this great nation’s highways due to traffic accidents. Every 34 minutes one person is murdered; but every 13 minutes one person dies due to highway collision and crash.
Ethan Foundation: Saving People’s Lives through Awareness
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Kitchen Table Talk
- Unrated
Traffic accidents are the leading cause of the majority of deaths amongst children. It also accounts for most deaths for teenagers and young adults. It is time for people to make a move and to be catalysts of awareness and eventually create a safer passage for everyone.
Birth Mother: The Reason For Being
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Adoption
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A young girl is usually filled with so many dreams. She dreams of a grown-up life, what her Prince Charming will be and she looks forward to walking down the aisle towards the man she will share forever with. She dreams of her own house and her own kids. She thinks of how many children she wants to have and what they will look like. Does she want boys or girls? She thinks of baby names and more. All these amusing and delightful things can keep on running inside the pretty mind of a girl. But never she will think of her becoming a birth mother.
Attachment Parenting: Creating Stronger Bonds With Your Kids
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Parenting
- Unrated
Attachment parenting is a relatively new parenting technique that has been getting all the attention from both would-be parents and veteran ones. It is a phrase created by a world-renowned pediatrician, William Sears. It is a parenting value that is pretty much based on the attachment theory in developmental psychology. This theory highly depicts the strong emotional bond between the children and the parents during childhood.
Open Adoptions Behooving For Adoptive Parents And Birthparents
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Adoption
- Unrated
The number of social workers and adoption professionals who strongly agree the benefits of open adoptions are gradually increasing. An open adoption is thought to yield positive effects on the child and his or her adoptive parents and birthparents. Pieces of relevant information can be freely exchanged indirectly or directly in open adoptions.
Adoptions: How Society Views It
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Adoption
- Unrated
When one speaks of adoptions, varied perceptions will then be heard. Each person feels differently about the subject, more like basing from his or her own personal experiences. In the society today, lots of assumptions are encountered about adoptions that were already around from previous generations. There are positive and negative feedbacks.
Adoption Costs: Still High But Now Affordable
- By Adam Webster
- Published 11/30/2007
- Adoption
- Unrated
Building a family has accompanying costs but so does adopting a child. Not all cases have to be expensive, though. Adopting from the foster care system may only involve little or no cost at all, and the state usually provides adoptive families with subsidies for the child. Adoptions of step-parent and kin are likewise not very expensive and may require only a small fee.