The Flame
Runner Up: Jean Kelly Widner Boulder City, Nevada Congratulations, Jean! Jean’s Bio: Jean Widner is a professional writer and business owner of a...
A Loving Launch
This past Saturday, May 31st in Boulder City, a group of special friends, supporters and contributors to the book, The Adoption...
Reclaiming National Adoption Awareness Month
What does it mean to be truly child centered when considering adoption? It begins with listening, sincerely and without dismissal, to the adoptees...
Who are Modern Birthparents?
Demographics, Myths, Lies and the Real Truth The paradoxical treatment of birth mothers is even more confusing than what adoptees experience....
The Door Left Open
Mother’s Day is a triggering day on the calendar for many people. For those of us impacted by adoption, it can be ten times that on the Richter...
Exploring The Primal Wound
Within the sub-culture of adoption, few theories are as celebrated and simultaneously controversial as “The Primal Wound”. The book with the same...
Native Americans and The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of "The Adoption Paradox" on the History of Adoption. The tales of the atrocities of the U.S. government against...
The Flame
From deep inside the womb, I know both love and sadness. They ripple through my blood, my bones, and intertwine to create the essence of me. ...
I Got Blueberry Pancakes
This is a guest post, written by Dirk Uphoff Back in the Summer of 1968, my family and I went on vacation to visit my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins. This...
The Flying Circus Inside My Head
The mother who raised me was an addict. She and my father adopted me, but I’m not sure why. In 1962 when you got married, you started a family....
Preparing To Seach
(Shared with permission from Dr. Joe Soll, Psychotherapist, Author and founder of the Adoption Counseling Center in New York, NY) If one wants to...
Gayle’s Story
I'm married to Matt, and I'm a petite little thing, and I don't cycle properly. We married later in life. I was 28. We started looking at adoption...