Letter To My Child’s Adoptive Mother,
To My Child’s Adoptive Mother, I write to you now because I have lived each day with this complexity and need to open up to you about it. You and I share this unique relationship with each other that began with the life of the child whom we both love so dearly. We both identify…
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Graham! A Birth Day Poem From Your Birth Father
One Year Ago One year ago the world became a better place. Our life’s became darker one year ago. Our sacrifice brought so much joy. Our loss made a family. Feelings of pride and sorrow intertwine. My burden to bare, and I would not change it. My wife lost a son. My son lost a…
Read MoreA Letter to My Adversaries in the Adoption Community
A Letter to my Adversaries in the Adoption Community Dear Adversaries, Is adoption traumatic to every birth mother or is the relationship we have with the people involved traumatic? Traumatic events in life happen. Part of being alive means we are going to come in contact with good and evil. Events like birth, death,…
Read MoreMy Amazing Weeklong Visit with ALL of the Children that I Placed for Adoption
I had not seen 3 of my kids in about 10 years. The oldest currently lives with me. I received updates through their adoptive mom, Sandra and pictures throughout the years. I watched them grow from a distance, yearning for more connection. I wanted to know how much they knew of me, what did they…
Read MoreHow My Open Adoption Relationship Developed Over Time
I have been a birth mom for a little over five years. I have two birth sons placed with the same family who are 5 and 3 years old. From the beginning, our adoption was extremely open. I had visits very often, at least once a month and every holiday. Sometimes, we would even spontaneously…
Read MoreOur Adoption Journey
Our Journey I am a birth father, this is the story of my wife’s and my adoption journey. We had been together 17 years. We had a 12 year old son. Then while at the E.R. my wife learned she was pregnant. That is when our world was turned upside down. We knew we did…
Read More“REAL STRENGTH”
“REAL STRENGTH” -a poem about adoption written by a loving birth father, the night his son was born. Today, once again you amazed me. I watched you give birth to our son, to their son, to a family. How strong you must be to deal with all the pain of labor. And at the end…
Read More“THE EASY WAY”
“THE EASY WAY” A Poem about adoption from a birth father. Someone naively said once ” adoption is the easy way”. I beg to differ. When presented with a choice of this magnitude, how would you respond ? I have seen too many times people choose the self-serving and selfish road. Never with any real…
Read MoreCassie’s Adoption Story
Hi there! My name is Cassie. I am 39 years old and I am a birth mom. I have 6 children total. My oldest 4 (ages 20, 17, 14,and 11) were adopted in 2007. At the time they were 10, 7, 4 and 1. Before I share the rest of my story, let me say…
Read MoreWhy “Back to School” Can Be Hard For Women Who Have Placed a Child for Adoption
Why “Back to School” Can Be Hard For Women Who Have Placed a Child for Adoption. New Clothes, New Books and New Beginnings… (Inside the Life of Anna, birth mom of a 15 month old son and Lindsey, birth mom of 8 year old twin girls.) Excitement was in the air as the…
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