The Matching Process for Domestic Infant Adoption
The Matching Process for Domestic Infant Adoption My Role: Working as a pregnancy counselor and clinical support specialist for our waiting families, I am…
10 Quick Tips Regarding Back To School
Back To School! As you prepare to send your child or children back to school, there are many tasks that need to get done as the new school year approaches. If…
Parenting Teens and Tweens – What They Really Need
So what does parenting a tween or teen actually entail? What do behaviors of these kids actually look like?
DNA Analysis and Its Challenges for Adoption
I found the following article, DNA’s new ‘miracle’: How adoptees are using online registries to find their blood relatives, on the front page of the Washington…
Donor Spotlight: Shirley Windle
Donor Spotlight: Shirley Windle The story of a mother and daughter’s reconnection that starts with Barker’s earliest days In 1945, Washington D.C. couple…
Congratulations to an Amazing PWNL Mom on Her Award Winning Blog!
One of our very own PWNL Moms has been recognized as one of the best Adoptive Mom Blogs of 2016 by Healthline for her blog, Adoptive Black Mom. Adoptive Black…
National Adoptive Month: An Adoptive Parent Reflection
Celebrating NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH and Thanksgiving, with a reflection: I am a mom to a super kind, beautiful and intelligent kid because of the tough…
Raising Black Children and Adoption
In mid-August of 2018, I walked into an adoption agency to speak at one of their Cultural Trainings for the first time. This was only the second time I would…
The Adoption Story: Peer Groups, Curiosity and Trigger Questions
I never really thought of my family being *that* different until our son entered elementary school. In some ways, this seems like a silly thing for me to say….
Barker Meets with "Closure" Documentary Filmmakers to Discuss New Adoption Education Project
Last night, Barker had the opportunity to spend the evening at an intimate gathering with the inspirational couple behind the movie “Closure,” a documentary…