What’s Your Open Adoption Truth?
You might have seen my somewhat rambling posts on the AdoptiveFamiliesCircle group boards: A call for participants to be part of a genuine, frank, and heartfelt web series about open…
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Domestic Adoption
More from AFC's adoption bloggers about adopting a newborn or older child from the United States.-
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Unrelated? Oh, I Can Relate.
It amazed me that the tiny slip of a town where my daughter was born could offer as much culture shock as any far-off destination. It wasn't the Midwest accent,…
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“Your Birth Mother Was Short!” “Your Birth Brother Is Stupid!”
Siblings bicker. Siblings pick on each other. Siblings love to irritate one another. Siblings tease each other about their birthparents and adoption stories? Apparently in my household, they do.…
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Grandpa and the Girl: Life Lessons from My Dad About Staying Young
The lessons I learned from my dad have stayed with me as I grew from snot-nosed kid into Purell-toting mom. Lessons such as The Ronnie Herel Money Management System, aka…
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Debacle
That's the first word that comes to mind as I think about our recent long-weekend visit to Indiana, to see Beth's birth family. First of all there was far too…
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Making the Leap from Birth Family to Family
Here's the main reason I wanted to adopt a baby rather than adopt donor eggs -- the young woman donating her eggs would remain anonymous. We would have known her…
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My Adoption Tattoo
It's almost that time of year when you are able to see your friends, neighbors, and strangers in their bathing suits. I always enjoy gawking at them. I swear, I'm…
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Same Birth Mother, Vastly Different Feelings About Adoption
My two children, adopted domestically as infants, have the same birth mother. We adopted Isabel when she was two months old. A year and a half later the agency called…
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Four-Year-Old in the House
Somewhere between the ages of three and four, it happened. We were running late and needed to move it. Now. But Beth decided she didn't want to move. So, she…
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“Do You See Your Son?”
As an adoptee and an adoptive mom, I have heard my fair share of adoption related questions over the years. By now, most of them don't surprise me and I…
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