April 27th, 2021 | by Megan Hanlon
Did a case worker visit my mother's house, sit with her at the same oak breakfast table where I had eaten countless Pop Tarts and watch while she signed paperwork allowing strangers to take guardianship of me
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
December 28th, 2020 | by Jill Stukenberg
How old or what grade are your children? I have one son who turned seven in May. That was after
December 11th, 2020 | by Joanna Clapps Herman
This creatura, miracoluccia, piccinina, thislittle, especially against my chest, arms splayed, loosened to comfort, in surrender.
December 8th, 2020 | by Esther Cohen
I knew it would be in a city, and I wanted my friends to be unfamiliar and different. Why are some people drawn to what is familiar and others of us the opposite
September 3rd, 2020 | by Miun Gleeson
I became mother-less six weeks before I became a mother.
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 30th, 2020 | by Jennifer Jordán Schaller
Strangers' questions imply that someone needs to keep watch over me, a Brown lady holding a white baby.
July 29th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
"It was difficult because I was never officially] adopted. I was no one, and I was never registered."
