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.
July 29th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
"It was difficult because I was never officially] adopted. I was no one, and I was never registered."
April 10th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I knew we would be sending Wolf into love, but I wanted to send him into peace, too. Or, I wanted him to stay with us
November 21st, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
The reasons you are on that side of the adoption table and we’re on this side are mostly fucked up, not your fault or our achievement
July 31st, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
Adoption is not like a bear raising a bird. It’s like a bear raising a bear it didn’t birth
October 15th, 2018 | by Lakshmi Iyer
You want a baby. Babies. Your husband agrees, albeit begrudgingly. But month after month your hopes surge and fall. You
September 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
Sometime during the lovely, delusional years that C.C. and I daydreamed about having kids, we found ourselves in the apartment
