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Happy Mother’s Day ~ May 14, 2017

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
— OPRAH WINFREY

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From Our Adoption Blog Archives:

  • Dawn Smith-Pliner, founder of the nontraditional adoption agency Friends in Adoption, poses next to her office in Middletown Springs last week. Photo by Cassandra Hotaling Vermont adoption agencies pass love parent to parent November 28, 2010
  • Friends in Adoption: 1-800-98-ADOPT Rhode Island Opens Adoption Records for First Time July 18, 2012
  • Circle Of Love - A Group for Birth Parents Friends in Adoption at the Ametz Adoption and Family Conference March 11, 2013
  • Welcome Home, Caleb! November 18, 2012
  • How did you feel when you first saw your child? (An FIA Q&A Series) November 26, 2019
  • Friends in Adoption: 1-800-98-ADOPT Father’s Rights in Adoption: An Overview September 13, 2013
  • FAQ: What is FIA’s approach to adoption? October 22, 2013
  • Ryan’s Story: A Birth Father July 23, 2013
  • Friends in Adoption attends: “This is Us: Adoption in the REAL World” December 17, 2017
  • Quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. January 17, 2014

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