How Alex and Matt Knew American Adoptions Was their Path to Parenthood

Alex and Matt adopted their son through American Adoptions in 2020. Now, adoptive mom Alex looks back on their adoption story and shares their experience with American Adoptions.

In early May …

Jan

2021

Change of Plans: One Birth Mother’s Adoption and Reunion Story

It was the spring of 1986, and 18-year-old Marda had her life all mapped out. But then life happened, and those plans started to crumble.

Dec

2017

An Adoptive Family’s Journey with American Adoptions: Part 2

Ellen Rondina, an adoptive mother, shares part two of her family’s heartfelt adoption story.

Dec

2017

An Adoptive Family’s Journey with American Adoptions: Part 1

Ellen Rondina, an adoptive mother, shares part one of her family’s heartfelt adoption story.

Oct

2017

Changed Lives: A Birth Grandmother’s Open Adoption Story

First she was an adoptive mother through a closed adoption, then a birth grandmother in an open adoption. One woman tells her story of faith, fate, and of being on two sides of the adoption triad.

Sep

2017

Adoptive Family & Birth Mother Share How They Were Meant to Find Each Other

An adoptive family worried no birth mother would choose a family with a dad in a wheelchair and a son with disabilities. A birth mother worried she wouldn’t find the perfect family. What happened next was “just meant to be.”

Aug

2017

In Moving Letter, Birth Mother Shares Her Love with Her Son

One birth mother writes a letter to her son, four years after his adoption, telling him what she wants him to know about her decision to place him for adoption.

Jul

2017

Terri’s Story: What It’s Like to Be a Birth Mom

A birth mother’s moving story of placing her child for adoption while struggling with bipolar disorder, and how far she’s come since then.

Jan

2017

Our Open Adoption Story – Diana

“Hey there. I’m Diana. I’m a writer and social media manager at American Adoptions. I was adopted as an infant in 1991 through an open adoption.”

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