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Mother’s Day Ambivalence
Every year I am on the verge of tears during the week leading up to Mother’s Day. Watching alluring commercials pitch presents for serene mothers and their perfectly behaved kids gets me started. But my [...]
Seven Adoption Novels for Pandemic Reading
These seven adoption novels will transport you from isolation and challenge you to think about the meaning of family during the pandemic. If Only, by Jennifer Gilmore, luminously shifts back and forth in time between [...]
Transparency in Adoption and Assisted Reproduction
Fill in the blank: I don’t want to tell my child ____________________. He is adopted. She was created with donor egg. They were carried by a gestational surrogate. Parents via adoption, egg or sperm donation, [...]