• Given a Chance

    In 2017, I myself was given a choice...as I held in my hands a VERY unplanned positive pregnancy test. As a professional party girl, I was shaken to my core

  • Choose Joy

    Twenty three years later, I am still in awe of my open adoption journey. The relationships I have developed and the person I have become because of this adoption journey

  • No One Needs to Sit Alone

    I was already a single Mother when I found out I was pregnant again. I was in a place of constant survival mode. I’d come home from working two jobs

  • A Poem in Honor of Birth Mothers

    "Star Power" - A Poem by Tara Meyer Dull Someday I want to tell you about the day anger walked through the door. Stormy steps, jaw clenched. It was the

  • Single parenting for 7 weeks reinforced my adoption decision

    I placed my daughter (Zoe) for adoption 11 years ago. I was 17 at the time and ready for my senior year in high school, and Zoe’s birth dad was

  • Understanding the heart of a birth mother

    Last week, we received two open letters from one birth mother (we’ll refer to her as “Mummy”). Mummy relinquished her son Seth when he was 2 1/2 years old. She

  • Two birth mothers talk about grief, aftercare and simple ways to support one another

    Recently the National Council for Adoption hosted a webinar called "What We Want Adoption Professionals to Know" and invited two birth mothers, Jan and Heather, to participate on the panel. We

  • Two of a Kind

    In honor of Mother’s Day, here's a story told by one woman who has actually walked in the shoes of birth mothers and adoptive mothers. When faced with the challenges

  • To The Moon

    Of two things I am certain 1) that my daughter loves me and 2) that I made the right choice. I am a birthfather and 15 years ago I chose

  • What I Know Now That I Wish I Knew Then

    You can't read an adoption story without a then and now. The world sees an event where the adoption community knows evolution. My journey is seventeen years long and counting. Seventeen