What’s True and Not
In an adoptive family, we all have adoption issues, but our Chinese daughter faces her own challenges in an American home.
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Double Bind
As an adoptive parent, I sometimes wonder if I am dealing with adoption-related issues in need of extra care, or simply kid things.
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Wishes in the Night
On the eve of our adopted daughter's birthday, we send wishes to her birthmother in China.
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A Question of Love
When people ask if I love my adopted daughter like my own, the answer is never simple.
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Seeking the Spirit
Not wanting to rush headlong into yet one more holiday season with that out-of-sorts feeling, I decide to try something different this year.
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Getting It
For the past five years, I've been trying to come up with a better name than 'Gotcha Day' -- one that encompasses the sacred joy for us, while honoring the loss that underlies the day.
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A Quiet Ache
A stirring movie about real birth parents in China awakens a quiet ache in me to make sense of something I may never be able to understand.
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The Family Tree
"Family Tree" assignments can be upsetting for some adopted children -- and their parents. Here's how Hanna constructed her branches.
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Priceless
Innocent conversations can run deep without warning. Buy her? Is that what she thinks? This can't be good.
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Matter of Trust
The ticking gets louder: Am I failing my daughter?
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