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A Letter to My Daughter’s Other Mom
26 March 2018 We found her. Finally. After nearly 20 years and an international investigation, we found our daughter’s birth mom. So I’m sitting here on a Tuesday, at my desk, with paper and a pen and a view of the rainy Oregon foothills trying to decide what to say to a mama across the…
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Why It’s Wrong to Ask Adoptive Families for Additional Proof of Adoption
CAUTION: I’ve got my Adoptive Mama panties in a bunch today. Buckle up, folks, ‘cause off we go! The crux of the matter is this: it’s not okay for insurance companies in the United States of America to require adoptive families to provide adoption paperwork as proof of legal dependency when the family can provide…
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Foster Mother: A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest Winning Entry by Dawn Reed
A Family and Imperfection Writing ContestWinning Entry Foster Motherby Dawn Reed It has been four years since I witnessed the moment. Four years of considering its consequence. Four years of trying to describe the meeting with Trent’s foster mother, and the word that I keep returning to is “powerful”. In the fall of 2009, my…
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Who Are You? A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest Winner by Lora Lyon
A Family and Imperfection Writing ContestWinning Entry Who Are You?by Lora Lyon Two years ago, a stranger walked in to our life. Or, more correctly, we walked in to hers. In a tiny office in Odessa, Ukraine I became a mother for the 5th time when a five-and-a-half year old girl with brown pigtails…