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I’m an adoptive parent. Here’s why it feels different right now.

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As November 8th looms, I’m thinking a lot about adoption and abortion and the ways they can be entangled. By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

November 3, 2022 Culture

How to know when one child is enough

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“We’re happy, the three of us, aren’t we?” I asked my husband.
By Leslie Kendall Dye

April 12, 2017 Parenting Challenges

This is what happened when I Googled “morning after pill”

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Planned Parenthood is one of the last vestiges of hope in this country.
By Abigail Rasminsky

January 13, 2017 Culture

Winter is here, but my baby is not

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I’m postpartum. Without a newborn. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, my baby didn’t make it.
By Jenn Press Arata

December 6, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Talking to my son about abortion

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One of the hardest parts of parenting is deciding when to let your children come to their own conclusions and when to steer them down a certain path, in the name of transmitting values.
By Lauren Apfel

June 27, 2016 Culture

Listening to other people’s teens

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The chance to remember myself at that age, in a way that I often don’t when I wrangle with my own teens, was illuminating.
By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

June 20, 2016 Family

Poor Your Soul: a Q&A

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What makes this an exceptional book is that it always steers its eye away from self-pity and toward a greater understanding of love and acceptance.
Abigail Rasminsky and Mira Ptacin

June 6, 2016 Books
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