Adoption Blog
Creating A Profile Book: A Difficult, But Rewarding Process
Tips for creating an adoption profile book that feels genuine: the letter to an expectant mom, choosing photos, and telling your family’s story.
Finding Hope: A Birthmother’s Journey Into the Light *Book Review*
Our review of Finding Hope: A Birthmother’s Journey Into the Light, and what it teaches about grief, healing and support after placement.
Waiting For Placement: Twiddling Your Thumbs
Approved and waiting to be matched? Practical, encouraging ways for hopeful adoptive parents to use the waiting time well.
What is a Home Study?
What an adoption home study is, who completes it, and what to expect from paperwork, interviews and the home visit, explained step by step.
What Do I Say?
Adoption touches the whole family. Gentle ideas for birth parents on talking with their other children about an adoption plan.
Coffee and Crumbs
Why the Coffee and Crumbs podcast became part of our days, and what its honest stories of motherhood offer adoptive and birth families.
Shop Small
The real work behind a small adoption agency, and a heartfelt thank you to the expectant mothers and adoptive families who choose Absolute Love.
The Girls Who Went Away
Our review of The Girls Who Went Away, an essential look at birth mothers’ experiences in the decades after WWII, and why language and choice matter.
The “AHA Moment”
How a memory of a Vietnamese orphanage and the birth of a daughter led our director to Absolute Love and ethical, family-centered adoption.