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My New Year’s Resolutions for the Adoption Community “I’m usually emotional during the week leading up to the new year. I’m thinking ahead

“Wow. She is not your average birth mother!” This was my immediate thought as I saw Lorri Antosz Benson speak at the adoption conference, Talk

As a birth parent in a semi-open adoption, the 18th birthday can be a really big milestone and mean many different things. You have all of the joy

Often I have caught a glimpse of my daughter as she watches the movie The Wiz, an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, and how she marvels at Dorothy wh

The reunification stories of adoptees and their families are as unique and varied as the individuals themselves. Sometimes, the birth families of a

Birth mothers—there is never an adoption without that significant human. Adoption stories wouldn’t be heard of without the sacrifice of her bod

Connecting your adult adopted children to their birth parents can be a bit tricky. Based on my personal journey with my two adopted children who ar

“Nature versus nurture?” That’s the age-old question of what shapes us into the person we are today. For an adoptee, this question causes us

What I did in my journey as an adoptee starts at the beginning of my life. I was born in a car, dropped off at a hospital, handed over to “The Ag

As a birth mother who gave her identical twin boys up for adoption 54 years ago, I can tell you how relieved I am to learn that the old phraseology