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Letter to My Mother

April 19, 2018 by Guest Contributor

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

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Infant Adoption, News, Reunion

A Letter from My Birth Parents

December 18, 2017 by Guest Contributor

A Letter from My Birth Parents

The following is an excerpt from How Did You Find Me, a sweet story about love lost and found again. Crossing over decades, the book weaves together the narratives of an adopted woman, her birth

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Birth Parent Reflections, Infant Adoption, News, Reunion

Do Everything You Can to Participate in Tour Korea!

November 28, 2017 by Guest Contributor

Do Everything You Can to Participate in Tour Korea!

Do everything you can to participate in the Tour Korea! Birthland Tour.  Your experience, and most importantly the experience with your child, sibling, parent, spouse, friend, or loved one, will

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, International Adoption, News, Reunion

Are You My Mother? Adoptees are in reunion whether they’re searching or not

June 7, 2017 by Guest Contributor

Are You My Mother? Adoptees are in reunion whether they’re searching or not

During a recent presentation at an adoption conference, I had the members attending my session participate in a quick exercise before they took their seats. I asked them to walk around the room and

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News, Parenting, Reunion

What to Do Before Your Child Starts a Birth Family Search

January 31, 2017 by Staff Contributor

What to Do Before Your Child Starts a Birth Family Search

Adoption search and reunion seems to be everywhere we turn these days: from tearful reunions displayed on TV to advertisements for DNA websites that can link you to birth relatives. As an adoptive

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Filed Under: Education & Webinars, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News, Parenting, Reunion

Humble Beginnings, Beautiful Families

November 21, 2016 by Staff Contributor

Humble Beginnings, Beautiful Families

Tammy Makram’s and Liz Kellner’s first days of life garnered headlines in the 1960s as they would today. The full biological sisters were both abandoned during the holiday season, four years apart,

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Infant Adoption, News, Reunion, Today's Child and Family

Like Mother, Like Daughter | Then and Now

May 5, 2016 by Guest Contributor

Like Mother, Like Daughter | Then and Now

Mother's Day is right around the corner. I got to thinking about my first Mother's Day in 2004 and my experience searching for birth family. The experience inspired an article first published in

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Adoptive Family Stories, International Adoption, News, Reunion

The Delicate Balance of Family

January 5, 2016 by Guest Contributor

The Delicate Balance of Family

It’s an awfully strange notion to feel a part of two very different families. When I met my biological mother’s family for the first time last month, I felt akin to them almost immediately. It was

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, News, Reunion

The Playbook

December 30, 2015 by Guest Contributor

The Playbook

A birth mother and adoptive mother reflects on adoption reunion There are playbooks for all sports, directions for electronics, assembly instructions for putting together furniture and even

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Birth Parent Reflections, News, Reunion

My Messy Beautiful | A Birth Mother Becomes an Adoptive Mother

October 30, 2015 by Guest Contributor

My Messy Beautiful | A Birth Mother Becomes an Adoptive Mother

Ever since I was a little girl I knew that someday I would be a mom. My sister, neighborhood friends, and I would play house for hours in the old barn. We would dress up in my mom’s old prom dresses,

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Birth Parent Reflections, International Adoption, Reunion

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