“You are a mom” – I will never forget those wonderful words spoken by my social worker when she called to let me know that my second daughter Pearl Mae Yu Rong was waiting for me in China. My daughter was seven months old and living in a Social Welfare Institute in the Guangdong Province. I couldn’t wait to hold her in my arms.
Several months before that moment I never thought a second adoption from China was within my reach. I am a single mother and I received a phone call from that...
People say all the time how “lucky” my new little brother is. Imagine a three year old little boy living in a Russian orphanage, who didn’t know how to play with the simplest toys, and couldn’t eat with a spoon or fork. He wasn’t able to talk much and was so weak and skinny he could barley walk. Even though he was three, he only weighed a little over 20 pounds. He had never been held or tucked in to sleep. He didn’t have a mother to wipe his tears, or pick him up when he fell down. No one...
Family Connections, Inc., is a not-for-profit, New York State authorized private adoption agency who has been caring for families through domestic and international adoption since 1994. We are dedicated to supporting birth parents, adoptive parents, and children touched by adoption throughout the life-long journey of adoption.
