Not My Newborn’s Mother
July 26th, 2022 | by Allison Grace Myers
What right did I have to hold this wondrous, just-born human in my arms?
July 26th, 2022 | by Allison Grace Myers
What right did I have to hold this wondrous, just-born human in my arms?
June 28th, 2022 | by Jessica O'Dwyer
We’d arrived at the drop zone in the early morning, ready for my boyfriend to teach me to tandem jump.
June 27th, 2022 | by Alexandria Bolden
Uncertainty is natural, but hope is real. And if you rely on it, lean into it, the hope outweighs the uncertainty and the doubt every time
May 31st, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
"Chantal tested positive for meth, so whether she knows it or not, she’s not going to be allowed to parent."
February 8th, 2022 | by Leah Ongiri
We open the door in the morning It is dark and rainy like all morningsThe smell of wet earth rises like
November 8th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Who did I think I was, acting like I was going to have a baby, just because I had a ream of papers and receipts and a promise
July 8th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
If there were a dozen red flags waving brazenly—her urgent need for money, lack of interest in who we were, trouble with the law—that was kind of the point. That was why Courtney was making an adoption plan
February 23rd, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
The word that squeezes your stomach like a jungle snake is "unfair." You deserve a baby. Your dad’s girlfriend deserves the vaccine. Fairness—what a ridiculous concept to cling to
August 25th, 2020 | by Jacqueline Ellis
On the new birth certificate, the adoptive parents’ names replace those of the child’s birth parents. There is a violence to this.
August 6th, 2020 | by Suzanne O'Brien
This country is all she knows, I think. And we are taking her away from it.