Birth Mother’s Day is usually not a holiday marked on a traditional calendar. Cards for this holiday are not readily available. But those who have been touched by adoption know.…
Children need to celebrate their roots. For adopted children, this celebration includes understanding and loving birth family. Thus, Birth Mother’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate and honor the…
“I love her,” Tamara shouldn’t have sounded so disheartened. She had chosen what she felt was the perfect adoptive family for her child, and Tamara loved the potential adoptive mother.…
Ask for angels to help you. If you believe in God or if you believe in angels, then you must believe that they would want to help you. We ask…
Guest blog from Jess, an adoptive mother who has spent the last few weeks with her premature infant in the NICU unit. Scott and I talked about adoption being part…
“In a perfect world, there would be no adoption.” That phrase has haunted me for a long time. A social worker sat in my living room with a clipboard and…
Not many generations ago, adoption was secret and often considered shameful for both the birth mother and the adoptive child. In loving consideration for this "shame," adoptive parents habitually attempted…
