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A Reunion Gone Right
Having worked for the television news media, I’m all too familiar with the general gloom and doom that is normally reported. Journalists, print or broadcast, know that “if it bleeds, it leads,” and...
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Reunion Takes Courage, Too!
I like happy stories, especially happy stories that talk about reuniting adoptees and their biological parents. So let’s talk about one! In 2006, a Canadian adoptee received an award called “The...
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Beautiful Reunion Story
It’s been kind of doom-and-gloom up in here lately, no? Thankfully, I have a nice little reunion story to share with my readers. This one hails out of India. (Be sure to visit the article because the...
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Very Sad News Out of Utah
This article makes me want to look up every adoptee and every birth parent in the state of Utah and offer big hugs. Granted, not every adoptee and birth parent would want my hugs but they could have...
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Happy Story To Kick off Your Weekend
I love happy reunion stories. I really do! We hear, so frequently, the stories that go wrong. This is partly due to the fact that when people have a good experience, they’ll likely tell one or two...
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Would Reunion Complete Your Life?
A friend of mine sent me the link to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette yesterday. She didn’t say what it was about, just sent the link as if it was a dare for me to click it. I wasn’t...
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Fear and Loathing in Adoption
Perhaps some of you caught the gem of a question and answer session on Slate’s Dear Prudence column this past Thursday. My husband is actually the one who caught it for me and forwarded the link to me....
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Suing Over Contact
A story out of Philadelphia has various sides of the triad along with random members of society going at each others’ throats regarding topics like search, reunion and an adoptee’s rights versus a...
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Literally Losing Your Child to Adoption
Many mothers from the Baby Scoop Era prefer to say that they “lost their child to adoption.” These particular mothers were never offered the option of parenting, being forced into relinquishing their...
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A Sad News Story + Two Warnings for Birth parents
I debated writing about this story for a few days. It’s typical news coverage, right in line with the “if it bleeds, it leads” motto of many a newsroom. It’s not happy. It’s not good. It does nothing...
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