Helpful articles on adoption, infertility, and related issues by Sandra Glahn

Posted below are links to several articles by Sandra Glahn on the issues of infertility and adoption. Sandra knows from personal experience how difficult infertility can be; she endured a decade of infertility treatment that included multiple pregnancy losses, three failed adoptions, and an ectopic pregnancy.

Sandra quotes Alice Domar, Ph.D., director of the Mind/Body Center for Women’s Health in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School: “The depression and anxiety experienced by infertile women are equivalent to that in women suffering from a terminal illness.”

• Positive Adoption Language
• Infertility: Myths and Facts
• A Heart's Desire: Encouragement for Couples Facing Infertility
• Infertility Tries Patients' Patience
• Facing the No-Baby Blues

P.S. Because some Filipinos intensely desire to have children, they have resorted to what is known as “simulation of birth” which is a criminal offense punishable by eight years of imprisonment. Please browse my Legal Updates blog post titled “Procedures in adoption under RA 8552” where I discussed the Philippine laws and procedures in adoption and what simulation of birth is.

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