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?)
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."
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
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
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
February 27th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
We’d all been holding our breath for so long. We’d all been on our best behavior
October 4th, 2022 | by Jody Kesiner
One mother vanishes while another mother becomes. This vanishing, I remind myself, is only on paper.
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.
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
July 26th, 2022 | by Allison Grace Myers
What right did I have to hold this wondrous, just-born human in my arms?
