February 12th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"If it’s simple, you can say it in a social media post; it’s because it’s so hard that it has to be novel." —Laurie Frankel
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
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
January 10th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
My 7-year-old is watching The Croods: A New Age again. It’s better and weirder than you’d think—a tribe of warrior
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.
July 26th, 2022 | by Allison Grace Myers
What right did I have to hold this wondrous, just-born human in my arms?
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
