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How reading so many books about grief helped me through my own

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I wanted to learn how people managed to survive the unthinkable. By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

February 2, 2022 Books, Parenting Challenges

How I respond to adoption questions like, are they really yours?

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I get that people are curious when your children don’t look like you. By Diane Bonina

August 31, 2021 Family

Perspective | Why I don’t use positive adoption language

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“Birth mom” does not make me feel like a baby machine without feelings, but it does clarify my role in her life. By Adrian Collins

November 25, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Waiting for our family’s adoption to be complete

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What if birth certificates reflected reality? I imagined three spaces, one for our daughter’s biological mother and two for us. By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

November 19, 2019 Culture, Family

My grandson tells me he doesn’t like the color of his skin

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In the summer, I put my sunbaked arm down next to his hoping he will notice it’s not so different. By Adrienne Sciutto

June 10, 2019 Culture, Parenting Challenges

What does it mean to be a “real” mother?

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My daughter collapses after an endless tantrum and says, I wish I wasn’t adopted. By Tanya Friedman

May 30, 2019 Family

Adopting older children and the transition to the empty nest

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I wanted to believe that bringing teenagers into our life would make it easier to let them go. I was wrong. By Meredith Gordon Resnick

January 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Raising a black activist in a mother’s white world

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I don’t want to mess this up. I live in fear of being seen as a privileged person with an accessory on my arm. By Jenn O’Connor

March 28, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Pictures of you: choosing a child to adopt

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We’ve raised three children of our own, but still have a little parenting left in us.
By Julianne Palumbo

March 15, 2017 Parenting Challenges

An ultrasound of a beating heart, at last

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By the time we left China, it felt like he was ours, wholly and completely. And he is. But he is not.
By Kelly Westhoff

September 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges
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