On Adopting My Biological Child
January 15th, 2025 | by D.M. Hartshorn
I gave birth during the first Trump inauguration. Now, I’m adopting my biological child before he takes office again.
Browsing the "Adoption Stories" Category
The Wild Robot as Transracial Adoption Story
October 30th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
I watched it as an allegory of a determined but clueless white woman adopting a Brown child. (Is there anything more on-brand for a white woman than seeing every movie as being about me?)
Losing Grip: Author Roxanna Asgarian on the Child Welfare System
May 6th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"The systems are clearly biased...but we also see in the Hart story just how many individual acts of bias contributed to these kids' deaths."
She Wasn’t Ever Ours to Keep
February 5th, 2024 | by Elizabeth di Grazia
Every time Mayra was pregnant, the father said the child was not his. But after he learned we'd adopted one of his children, he threatened to kidnap her
Better
August 15th, 2023 | by Charise Alexander Adams
She may never fully believe she can depend on me – she has been let down too many times. These things are part of the gulf between us that can never be closed – but it can be bridged
The “M” Word
June 19th, 2023 | by Angela Tucker
“Adoption does provide a different life,” I said, erasing the judgment about it being good or bad, better or worse
I Can Say This Now
February 27th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
We’d all been holding our breath for so long. We’d all been on our best behavior
She’s Both of Our Daughters
October 4th, 2022 | by Jody Kesiner
One mother vanishes while another mother becomes. This vanishing, I remind myself, is only on paper.
Liminal Village: Adoption, COVID, and Homes in the Air
September 27th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
The NICU social worker said Joey was ready to graduate. She talked to us like we were already his mothers.
When I met him
September 12th, 2022 | by Julie Bolt
Tuesday. The social worker arrives at the Los Angeles Park. He scrambles out of the back seat and laughs excitedly. He