Best Adoption Blogs

The sheer number of adoption bloggers online is overwhelming. We have attempted to help you out by weeding through and selecting our favorites. Please let us know via our contact page any of your favorites that we’ve missed.

International Adoption:

• Mine in China: A great blog mainly focused on the China adoption program. It’s also a fantastic resource for understanding issues such as ethics in adoption and for learning about other organizations that touch the lives of orphans in China.*
• Ordinary Time: Blog by an adoptive mom to twelve kids, both biological and adopted from Vietnam and China. In her own words, “I write mainly about my large family, adoption, attachment, homemaking, homeschooling, parenting, and Jesus.”
• Ripped Jeans & Bifocals: A fun, sometimes snarky and sometimes serious blog that tackles issues of being an older mom by international adoption and special needs adoption among many other delightful things.
• AdoptPeru: A real look at the ups and downs of the process of adoption from Peru. The author was herself born in Peru and is now a biological mom to one and Army wife navigating the world of adoption after infertility.
• My Overthinking: Mother of 4, one of whom was adopted from China. She blogs about parenting, adoption, and orphan advocacy.
• Full Plate Mom:  This mom of 11 (with one more on the way), adoption advocate, business owner and nurse has a very full plate. She and her husband have adopted domestically and internationally, including special needs adoptions.*
• For Ever, For Always, No Matter What: Homeschooling mom to six kids, all by adoption from Russia, Korea and the Caribbean.
• Uncharted Parent: The author is a former civil rights attorney who is now a stay at home mom of two writing about parenting and adoption in her “New England-Jewish-not-Jewish-Caucasian-Korean-professional-stay-at-home-mom-formed-by-adoption-and-biology family.”
• Sherry Gragg: Formerly known as Every Day Miracles, Gragg shares stories of parenting teens and tweens, current events, social issues including international adoption and her career as a writer.
• Rage Against the Minivan:
  Kristen Howerton’s blog is hugely popular and covers a ton of topics, including “sleep-deprived rants about parenting, poop, adoption, politics, race, religion, social justice, and various other subjects that her mother warned her not to discuss in public.” She has four children, 2 of whom were adopted from Haiti.*

Domestic Infant Adoption:

• White Sugar, Brown Sugar: Blog by a mom through domestic infant adoption that explores issues of transracial adoption, open adoption, homeschooling and other related conversations.*
• On Loan From Heaven: The author is a mother of two through domestic adoption, one of which has special needs. The blog posts are mainly focused on advocacy for placement situations.
• Lavender Luz: Lori is the mom of two through open domestic adoption. She is very active in the open adoption blogging community and is a terrific and frequent blogger. She is also the author of the wonderful book The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption.
• Expecting Miracles: The author of this blog shares her journeys through unexplained infertility, embryo adoption, and domestic adoption. It’s a faith-based blog with delightful pictures of their life together as she homeschools their three girls.
• Leah Campbell Writes: Great blog blog written by the author of Single Infertile Female and single adoptive mom by choice.

Foster/Foster-to-Adopt:

• Fostering Hope Through Adoption:
  This blog is written from a strong Christian world-view and chronicles this family’s journey through foster care and foster-to-adoption. It’s real and heartfelt even when it’s hard.
• Hearding Chickens: One mom’s perspective on parenting through the journey of foster care and adoption. Very real and honest and hopeful.
• Lauren Casper: Written from a faith-based perspective, Casper shares her stories of infertility, adoption, parenting and more. It’s a good balance of real and hope.
• Foster The Family: Faith-based blog dedicated supporting and building health families, supporting foster care initiatives and orphan care ministry.
• The Forgotten Initiative: Blog by the non-profit, dedicated to “bringing joy and hope to the foster care community.”

Birth Parents:

• Birth Mother/First Mother Forum: Written by two women, this blog is a place for first/birth/natural/real mothers share reactions to media stories, news in the adoption field, and their opinions about it all.
• Adoption & Birth Mothers Forum: This site, which included the blog Musings of the Lame, has become a forum with a wider focus to address the complexities of the adoption industry, adoptees’ rights, the fight for access to adoptees’ birth records, and the needs of birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees. There are MANY resources here including links to blogs by other first parents.
• Wsbirthmom: Written by a first mom who talks candidly about the loss of her son through adoption, open adoption, and her work to help pregnant women in crisis and family preservation.
• All In The Family Adoption: This resource blog is written by two women, with a strong voice for birth mothers and family preservation. They also focus on adoptee rights and documentation access.

General Resources & Supports for Adoption:

• No Hands But Ours: A great resource site helpful for understanding medical needs and other special needs that are commonly associated with the China program. Their blog offers several posts a week from contributing authors and the lives of families children from China. This site and its blog is written from a Christian world-view.
• Mine in China: A great blog mainly focused on the China adoption program. It’s also a fantastic resource for understanding issues such as ethics in adoption and for learning about other organizations that touch the lives of orphans in China.*
• Adoptive Families Blog community: This is a collection of bloggers who contribute to the Adoptive Families community on a variety of issues in adoption. Includes all kinds of adoption relationships.
• Extraordinary Moms Network: This is a faith-based group who provides support, love, encouragement and guidance for adoptive mothers and foster moms, mothers of special needs children and all women who invest their lives in other people’s children.
• Stirrup Queen’s Mega Blog List: This is the mother of all blogrolls. Every blog on infertility and adoption ever created, or just about, is listed on this magnificent collection of blogs, though it is not frequently updated so some links may be inactive. The blogroll is actually searchable, which is wonderful.
• Embryo Adoption Awareness Center blog: The Embryo Adoption Awareness Center’s blog shares it mission of “giving infertile couples each option and every hope, and raising awareness about the life-affirming practice of adopting children as embryos.”
• Adoption at the Movies: A review resource assisting adoptive parents in parsing out the issues of adoption, loss, trauma and related topics in popular movies and television. Often contains spoilers.