closed adoption A Broken Open Adoption; at Last a Reunion Rachel tells her story. At age 16, she placed her daughter Iris in a semi-open adoption that eventually closed. Rachel lost both her daughter and herself and is gaining both back. Read More » 29 Comments
foster adoption Everybody Owns a Scar: Trials in an Open Foster Adoption Lynn Sollitto tells of the difficulties that arose for her when a desire to remain open to her daughters’ first mother collided with the imperative Read More » 10 Comments
adoption reunion “Nobody Should Ever Feel Like They’re a Mistake” Elijah Thomas, who just turned 24, was determined to find his birth father. In a sort of reverse Gotcha, he shares with us the story Read More » 11 Comments