Heewon Lee, a Korean adoptee and genetic counseling graduate student at the University of Minnesota, is recruiting participants for a research study about direct-to-consumer genetic testing (e.g.,
14 Years Ago I Got “The Call”
On his birthday last week Tea (Sammy’s birthmom) texted to let me know she’d reached Sam to wish him a happy birthday. She said he told her he was “skating w/ a bunch of white ppl. Lol.” I wrote
The Holidays When You’re Longing for a Baby Can Be So HARD
This content was originally published by Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit. Let's pause for just a moment to recognize that this season of joy is also a
A Very Foster Christmas and an Adoptive New Year
Joyful Noize Productions is putting together a show celebrating the foster/adoption community and YOU are the stars. They have an open call for story tellers who want to share their first-person
$1500 Adoption Grant Available for Home Study Approved Families
Adoption is Love Fund is still accepting applications for their grant. The $1,500 grant was created by an adoptive family hoping to help prospective adoptive parents with adoption expenses. Grants are
Discovering a Different Kind of Love through Open Adoption
“I decided to trust that a child was out there, waiting for us. Now, I whisper in his ears when we rock at night, ‘I’m so glad you’re here, but what took you so long?’” Wendy said of finally realizing
Minneapolis Camp-Conference for Teen Adoptees
Registration is now open for the Adopteen Camp-Conference in Minneapolis, a five-day camp for teen adoptees, entirely run by adoptees! Since 2008, Adopteen has worked to bring the adoptee community
Feels Like Home | A Birth Mother’s Story
From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I knew I was going to do adoption. But the path was not as straight-forward as I first expected. My daughter’s birth father was involved and supportive
Letter to My Mother
Dear Mother, Writing “Dear Mother” seems so formal, yet I never met you so I can’t call you “mom.” I don’t even know if you would have wanted me to call you “mom.” Let alone if I would have been
Participate in Columbia University Research
Columbia University received a large federal grant and are eager to find participants for three studies. Two of the studies require families to go to their lab in New York and a third study requires a
