Gladney Blog

The Chinese New Year is China's most important festival and holiday. Tuesday, February 5, 2019 begins The Year of the Pig. 

Topics: China Adoption, Gladney Event

Read the latest information about Gladney's China and Taiwan's adoption program in the January 2019 Gladney Newsletter.

Topics: China Adoption, Taiwan Adoption, China & Taiwan Newsletter

Elizabeth is only 14 months old and her file was prepared when she was only 10 months old. At that time she was pulling herself on her tummy in an army crawl. Her caregivers describe her as a sweet, happy baby.

Topics: Down Syndrome, Superkids, China Adoption, Waiting Children

It is Monday morning. While the nation at large is waking up, loathe to begin another work week, those of us connected with the China adoption community wake up a little early and grab our phones or laptops to check social media sites.

Topics: Superkids, China Adoption

Oh Claire! Hang on to your hearts. This little sweetheart will tug all the heartstrings!

Topics: Superkids, China Adoption, Waiting Children

Toliver is only 1, still a baby, and could be home soon after his second birthday! How amazing is that!?

Topics: Superkids, China Adoption, Waiting Children

We are thrilled to announce two matches this week! One from China and one from Taiwan!

Topics: Superkids, China Adoption, Taiwan Adoption, matched

See our new look? We are pretty excited about it! But don't worry, we are still Gladney's Superkids and that part won't change. What will change is that we will be reaching more people and a broader audience. Which means the sweet children we advocate for will have even more people seeing them, sharing their posts, and becoming advocates for them. We call that winning!

Topics: Superkids, China Adoption, Taiwan Adoption, Holiday

Now that I’ve had time to recover from the jet lag, and get somewhat caught up on work, I look back on my two weeks in China and Taiwan and am truly grateful for the experience. I learned so much! 

Topics: Superkids, China Adoption, Taiwan Adoption

When I was eleven months old, my sister and I were adopted from the Jiangxi province of China. My parents were only expecting to adopt one child at that time, and boy, were they surprised when they received pictures of two baby girls. According to my parents, and the packet of papers they received from the orphanage, my sister and I had been found together on the street at one day old, on April 1, 1999. From there, we were brought to the orphanage and soon after, brought into a foster home. Once we arrived in the United States, it was discovered through DNA tests that my sister and I were only three percent related. We had the same birthday, were the same age, and were together since they day we were born, but we weren’t twins like everyone had thought. Nothing else was known about who our birth parents were, where we were born, what time, and how we ended up together.

Topics: China Adoption, Adoption Stories