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August 2025 Newsletter
Posted on September 03, 2025 by Adoption Circle Staff
The cooler days are indicative of summer fading into fall! The BER months are upon us (brace yourselves parents 😊) Lets recap our last full month of summer and prepare for the holiday trifecta!! With fall comes Americas favorite pastime ... .FOOTBALL! The Buckeye’s season started with success – let’s hope that this is the beginning of another amazing season. It is with great pride we want to share that one of Adoption Circle’s kiddos (OK, technically he belongs to his parents, Liz and Jeff) is fulfilling one of his dreams and is playing football for the Air Force Academy! We are BURSTING with excitement!! Please check out Adoption Circle’s FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. We enjoy watching these young men succeed on and off the football field!
August was a steady month with two placements and two finalizations. Both birth mothers chose to connect with post placement services through On Your Feet, the agency that Adoption Circle collaborates with. Is your child’s birth parent interested in receiving post placement emotional support? Please let them know they can reach out and identify that they placed through Adoption Circle and they can be connected to counseling and support groups all offered virtually.
Do you follow Adoption Circle on social media? You may have noticed that we have increased our presence. We are working to build upon our content so please share with us any pictures or videos that you believe to be relevant for our page. We are looking for parent tips and adoption realities. If you have something that you believe will serve the adoption community, PLEASE share with us!! FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter
August brought the start of school – IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!! Have you ever wondered how much you should share with your child’s teacher about their adoption? We live in a world where families come in all shapes and sizes. Teachers have become more accepting of families and how they are created so……is your child’s story really important for the teacher to know? This article https://adoption.org/teacher-adoption is a great read and may help you decide how to share information with your child’s teachers.
In September we will celebrate Grandparents Day on September 7th. This is a great opportunity to honor all the grandparents, biological and adoptive, in your child’s lives. Often in adoption birthparents struggle with issues that prevent them from being emotionally capable of having a relationship with their child. This is where grandparents often step up and provide a connection for adoptees to their biological family. How will you honor your child’s biological grandparents in September?
September is also Hispanic Heritage month. This is a great reminder to educate your child about their birth heritage and to honor their birth culture. If you are lucky and your child’s social medical history contains their biological ethnicity, please celebrate it. If you know of your child’s biological heritage perhaps you will consider international travel in the future to allow your child to experience their culture firsthand. What a defining opportunity! Many birth families are unaware of where their relatives lived prior to the US. Having that information is incredibly important for an adoptee.
September is also National Preparedness Month; how does this relate to adoption? We don’t know BUT if ever there is a role in life where one needs to be prepared it is PARENTING!!! Please feel free to share pictures with us as you are out and about this month. We love to see our families engaged in their communities.
A Note from the Director of Birthparent Services:
Hello! Guess what I want to talk about? OPENNESS in adoption!! Do you think I sound repetitive? There is a reason for that. The foundation of adoption is loss. Adoption divides a person between biology and their everyday life. Openness in the context of adoption is the only way an adoptive parent can help their child heal from this divide. We know that openness strengths an adoptees sense of identity and decreases an adoptees sense of abandonment. For those of you with littles these issues may seem remote, but I promise you as a parent of teens these will become paramount in your child’s life. The teen years have significant challenges, and when a child does not know from where they came and why this adoption decision was made for them LIFE CAN BE COMPLICATED and confusing. You know what is challenging for teens? COMMUNICATION. From personal experience I can share with you that teens struggle to have the words to describe their feelings, and when they do, they don’t always have the COURAGE to speak their truth. Be proactive and gather as much information as you can when you are placed and when your child is young. This is when you have the greatest chance to find out details about your child’s birth family. The more time that occurs after placement the less likely you will be able to find what you need. What I hear from many adoptive parents is an underlining fear that openness will challenge their role in their child’s life. Interestingly a study conducted by NCFA (National Council for Adoption) in 2023 found that openness encourages an adoptee’s attachment to their adoptive parents. Consider this point of view: my adoptive parents loved me so unconditionally and so much that they allowed me to have a connection to my biological family as well as my adoptive family thus creating a tribe of people that helped me to be my best self and who I was born to be. In August I had the privilege of connecting an adoptee with his birth mother and birth siblings. He reached out as he was just a few weeks from starting college and he felt a desire to meet his birth family for the first time. Ironically his birth mother reached out to Adoption Circle a few days later, sharing that her birth son had turned 18 and wanting to give the agency her current information in case he decided to contact her. They met for lunch and new connections were created. This young man is starting his college experience with a greater understanding of himself and his family. Isn’t this what we ALL want for our children?
