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Raising a black activist in a mother’s white world

colorful handprints
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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

The truth about the surrender of my foster child

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My best efforts at parenting weren’t enough to make him stay. My son no longer wanted to call me “Mom.”
By Kelly A. Dorgan

August 21, 2017 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

My foster child is gone, am I still a mother?

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I cling to the knowledge that if I have given her anything, I have given her hope. I see it in her smile.
By Jenn O’Connor

January 17, 2017 Parenting Challenges
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