I write about adoption
Here’s why I write about adoption, but it can be awkward, this birthmother/ first mother thing. The other night I attended a birthday party, and chatted with a couple I hadn’t…
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Here’s why I write about adoption, but it can be awkward, this birthmother/ first mother thing. The other night I attended a birthday party, and chatted with a couple I hadn’t…
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Preconceived notions The birthmother myth. What myth? You already know plenty about birthmothers, right? Or you think you do. But these women and girls who have given up their children…
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What N.A. M. is not meant to be Today is the last day of November. But it’s still National Adoption Month. I feel like pouring myself a glass of champagne…
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Some examples It’s National Adoption Month. And, of course, the topic of crowd funding for adoption has popped up here and there and everywhere. “Pagan babies” in the 1960s I went to…
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National Adoption Month What I would like to say to everyone who is happily celebrating National Adoption Month is this: Every adoption begins with loss. You are happy. But. Some…
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How N. A. M. began National Adoption Month began in 1976 in the state of Massachusetts as a way of bringing awareness to the plight of children in foster care….
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