Open Adoption Story: Two Stories of Love Coming Together
An Open Adoption Story: Two Stories of Love Coming Together The day Jessica carried her newborn daughter into the Heart to Heart Adoptions office, she wasn’t just bringing a baby…
An Open Adoption Story: Two Stories of Love Coming Together The day Jessica carried her newborn daughter into the Heart to Heart Adoptions office, she wasn’t just bringing a baby…
Interracial Adoption--Using Humor These siblings were pros as they fielded questions and remarks. My black son and my white daughter were guides at the same tourist facility. They were also…
Dear Birth Mother My words are weak. When I think of you, emotions well up inside me. Emotions that have no words.Emotions that are so intensely filled with gratitude and an…
My Birth Mother Was a Playboy Bunny Adopted children often have high expectations of their birth parents. As a small child, Katie supposed "my birth mother was a princess," heir…
Find Hope in Adoption: When Both Birth Mothers and Adoptive Parents Feel Powerless We hear our hopeful adoptive parents. You feel powerless. We hear our courageous birth mothers. You feel…
Letters Left Unanswered: When Birth Parents Don’t Respond Alexander knows what it’s like to write a letter and never hear back. He wrote his birth mom a letter. Not out…
"You're Not My Real Parents"—Words That Burn and Linger There's no universal way that people feel about being adopted. For Alexander, it was a slow layering of emotions—some clear, some…