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The Pros and Cons?
One of my dearest friends sent me the link to a post this morning. I read it once and then I had to read it again. At first it seemed like a blog post about the benefits of open adoption. But then I...
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An Open Letter to a Hopeful Adoptive Parent
Yes, this is a particular hopeful adoptive parent, not all hopeful adoptive parents in general. This is the message I wrote to the woman whose blog I referenced in my post the other day. After finding...
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Help a Birthmom or Two?
For those of you who follow my Facebook page or my Twitter feed, this won’t be news. This post is a gentle nudge for you, but mainly for those who follow my blog and don’t follow any of my other media...
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OAR #44: What Openness Means to Me
It’s been a while since I’ve written in response to an Open Adoption Roundtable prompt, so I decided to respond to this one. What is “openness” to you? According to Wikipedia, the Hawaiian word...
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Christian Adoption Consultants
A dear friend shared the following picture on her Facebook wall yesterday morning: This immediately caught my attention, so I found Christian Adoption Consultants on the web. I wish to be clear. I did...
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Interview with Elaine Pinkerton, Author
First, I would like to apologize to my regular readers for letting other things conflict with my writing. I have missed it, and you, so I will make a more concerted effort to publish some of the things...
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Adoptee Rights Coalition
I read a post yesterday morning published by The Atlantic. The article discusses adoptees reuniting with birth families, and the recent trend of adoptees using Facebook to find their biological...
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10 Questions Birth Moms Hate
There have been a lot of blog posts recently about questions the infertile community hate as well as questions adoptive parents hate. Someone in one of the birth mom groups of which I’m a part asked us...
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On Mother’s Day…
I’ve mentioned before my general discomfort with birth moms having a separate day for celebration, but it seems appropriate to discuss it more fully on a day like today. Today is Mother’s Day, a day...
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The BirthMom Buds Retreat
Nearly two weekends ago, I had the opportunity to spend some time in Charlotte, NC at the BirthMom Buds retreat. This is an annual event, and in my opinion, well worth any suffering endured to get...
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AdoptionsFirst: Yet Another Non-Ethical Facilitator
I’m a member of Open Adoption Advocates on Google+. It’s a wonderful group comprised of many people interested in the effects of openness and closed adoptions on the parties involved, but most...
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What Do I Get?
The question in the title of this article seems to be a fairly common theme in adoption. It comes from hopeful adoptive parents aching for a baby to fill their homes and hearts. It also comes from...
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Life IS Pain
I was given the link to a blog post a while ago. The post itself is well worth a read – a copied story of an adoptee who grew up in an open adoption. This adoptee in particular had a negative...
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