One Option Means No Choice

This week my 6th grandchild was born. It's an amazing feeling to have 6 grandchildren and an even greater feeling to be able to tell the...

Photograph: Alamy "People don't tend to have the same respect for emotional brokenness as they do physical brokenness. Because...

This past week someone close to me, a family member, asked me how old I was when I was pregnant with my oldest child. She was referring...

Mother's Day. And "Birthmother's" Day. The second one I refuse to be part of. I never was a birthmother, I will alway...

It's about coercion, deception and adoption culture. I'm not done reading this book  but I have to share it anyway. I do believe it...

On this day, 33 years ago, my oldest child was born. On this day they hid her from me. On this day, for 22 years, I cried. On thi...

Yesterday I saw yet another story of a young man who decided that dying was preferable to living because being gay in our world was too much...