Susan Meisel Levin, PA

From Grief to Joy

From Grief to Joy | Adoptive Families Adopting > Decisions From Grief to Joy When you lose a parent or grandparent, you mourn the past. When you lose a child, as I lost my 24-year-old daughter, you grieve for the future that will not be. By adopting after this unimaginable tragedy, I wasn’t aiming to bury my grief or to start over, bu...

“It Takes No Special Power to Love a Child”

Hayden & Her Family: Special-Needs Adoption Documentary The filmmaker and parent featured in the documentary, Hayden & Her Family, discuss special needs adoption, parenting outside “normal” boundaries, and how loving a child changes you.

Thank You, Bàba

Thank You, Bàba: The Selfless Love of My Daughter's Foster Father Six months after she came home to us, our daughter stopped speaking. As I searched for clues as to her sudden silence, I became profoundly grateful to her Chinese foster father, a man I had never met, for teaching me a valuable lesson about selfless love.

How to Be an Anti-Racist Adoptive Parent

How to Be an Anti-Racist Adoptive Parent Learn how to be an anti-racist adoptive parent — interrogate your own white privilege; talk with your child about systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter protests; and more.

Letters to the Editor, RE: April 2019

Adoptive Families magazine - Letters to the Editor, RE: April 2019 Readers share feedback about articles published in the April 2019 issue of Adoptive Families magazine.

“Sliding Doors”

An Adoptee on Birth Parent Fantasies and Imagining Alternate Lives We all imagine different ways our lives could have played out. Adoptees may grow up wondering: ‘What would my life have been like if I had not been adopted?’