I am, quite frankly, sick and tired of the adoption industry pretending to protect me and other birthmothers. Every time I lobby or speak to a legislator about sealed adoptee records, they ALWAYS have the same concern; ” the poor birthmother who doesn’t want to be found” In truth, the average percentage of American Birthmothers who do not desire contact is 0.993471.

Around our house, we watch of lot of movies on summer nights. We watch DVDs from Netflix and also use their “watch it now” feature.
Here’s a review of a movie  you may want to add …

But the most important thing my Dad ever taught me was how to build a successful family. Because you see, my Dad is not my Dad, but he IS my Dad. He taught me that family is larger than genetics, or geography, or bloodlines. I am an adopted son who never knew his birth father.

I remember the prayers I used to say, staring out the window at the heat waves rising from the pavement.  The summer dirt opened up, parched and begging for rain.  I peered down deep and …

Well, my fifteen minutes on The View is up. Despite a slightly mortifying gaffe, I was glad to share a bit of our adoption story on a national media outlet.  Leading …

It’s funny– for  all of the open adoption stories I’ve heard/read, for every 5 where the adoptive family is in touch and/or has a relationship with the birth mom, there’s usually only one of those …

I don’t often get to watch Oprah or The View (though I would love to) because I’m either chasing kids, watching the kiddie shows, or doing kiddie laundry. I will, however, be turning in on …

My sister is adopted, have I mentioned that before?

She was adopted through a private adoption, arranged before her birth, by my dad and step mom. That was the summer of 1993. I wasn’t 18 yet.
I …

Sandra Bullock’s adoption of an African American child has set the comments section of many a news program ablaze, calling into question the practice of transracial adoption.  I used to really have a hard time …

I just looked at my oldest child’s baby book for the first time since we finalized his adoption. I hadn’t really thought about looking at it – one of the kids just pulled …