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What if Life Had Worked out Differently in Adoption?
What if life had worked out differently for a birth mother, adoptive parents, or their daughter, imagines Jennifer Gilmore in her luminous novel, If Only. As the pregnant sixteen-year-old protagonist studies photo books that hopeful [...]
ADOPTION AND SURROGACY HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018
Photos of impish babies hugging their protective dogs, proud middle schoolers holding skis and clarinets, bemused teenagers towering over their now comparatively tiny parents – these Holiday Greetings cards form the adoption highlights of 2018, [...]
Joy Adoption Can Bring
As I stood outside the courtroom anticipating my clients’ arrival through the elevator doors, the narrow corridor filled with happily boisterous babies, parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles arriving for adoption hearings. We were all corralled [...]