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Laura Dennis: what adoption reunion can teach us about openness

December 5, 2012

One of the best things to come from the Adoption Blogger Interview Project is that each year I run across new-to-me bloggers who help me see adoption from a new perspective, who make me ponder yet another facet of it. I was happy, then, to “meet” Laura Dennis last month, despite the fact that she [...]

The flip side of the adoption interview

November 21, 2012

I’m closing out the last week of National Adoption Awareness Month with the second part of twin posts from the Adoption Bloggers Interview Project. Part 1 was where I interviewed Becky of Scared to Be Happy, and below is the part in which she interviewed me (originally posted on her blog). (If you’re looking for [...]

2012 Adoption Blogger Interview Project

November 14, 2012

In conjunction with National Adoption Awareness Month, today is Interview Project day for more than 50 pairs of adoption bloggers. I therefore introduce to you to my partner-in-project, Becky from Scared to be Happy, Happy to be Scared. Becky and her co-blogger (and husband) Rick have been writing to their future child, Little One, for [...]

3 thoughts on the New York Times article on adoption and magical thinking

August 17, 2012

While researching his book on magical thinking, Matthew Hutson interviewed a psychologist and one of his collaborators who had, in turn, interviewed 38 adoptive parents. “It turns out that most of the parents had told her that their children had been brought to them by destiny.” Granted, 38 is not a very big sample. But [...]

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