“You were dropped off at our home, dropped into our family.”
‘I don’t love you ‘like you’re my own.”: Woman writes letter to her daughters on the day of adoption
‘While I was his mother, I was never meant to be his mom.’ Why this birth mom gave up her only child for adoption
“My child was not my own, and that was a beautiful moment.”
‘My nephew accidentally dialed her. That lady from the park is now my niece and nephew’s MOM!’: Stranger from public park adopts kids after ‘miracle’ chance encounter
“I remember getting the call from their bio mom. She was panicked. ‘They’re taking the kids. Can you take them?’ We knew it was coming. Things hadn’t been right for a long time.”
I was reminded recently that I am ‘just the foster parent.’
“Let me share with you ‘just’ what I really am.”
‘This perfect, precious little girl, in one itty bitty moment, completed our family, healed my heart, and made us parents’
“She was placed in my arms and I knew without a doubt that it had always been her. All of the hard and messy and ugly, for her.”
‘Perhaps one day a mom won’t have to adopt her own child.’ Interracial LGBTQ couple explains hurdles of becoming a mom
“If I can show them Kim and I are just two normal people who fell deeply in love and just needed someone to share it with, then perhaps one day these questions will stop.”
‘She doesn’t know what Mommy means’: Woman’s realization about foster child she ‘met 11 minutes before’
“To this little girl, ‘mommy’ meant the female adult of the house, the lady who reached something you couldn’t and refilled your juice.”
‘I used to think adoption was so happy and beautiful.’
“I didn’t know or realize or want to see that just because we’re a forever family doesn’t mean that the past won’t be a part of that forever.”
‘This little guy could use some good. We could do that for him.’: Couple adopts 2-month-old suffering from meth withdrawals
“When our agency called, they asked us, ‘There is a 2-month-old baby suffering from meth withdrawals and has a broken femur. Would you be willing to take him?’ I didn’t think there was any way he could’ve been in worse condition. To top it off, Katie and I were convinced we were going to take in older children. Now we had a call for an infant, but not just any infant, a very sick infant.”
‘The name on his chart was ‘anonymous’’: Couple overjoyed to adopt their ‘little prince’ from India in ‘fairy tale’ journey
“Are we nervous? Absolutely! Are we 100% prepared? Not at all. Do we know that Ian will be a perfect fit for our family. Without a doubt.”
