By Candice Miksovsky Dear Birth Mother, I See Your Strength In the Eyes of My Daughter
I love that she looks just like you. She shares your fierce and wild, animal-loving spirit while also being sensitive…
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By Her View From Home “We Locked Eyes, and That Was It.” Firefighter Adopts Baby Girl He Found In Florida Safe Haven Box
Six months ago, a Florida firefighter opened the Safe Haven Baby Box at his fire station to discover a tiny…
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Becoming a Mother In Two Hours: My Foster Parent Journey to Adoption
I became a mother in a very unconventional way. Sure, we took a year to complete classes and trainings and…
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Dear New Mom, God Is Only a Whisper Away
While we were waiting to adopt, I would wake up in the middle of the night panicky. My mind would…
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By A Cogent My Adoptive Mom is My Mother
She patiently cleaned the chocolate ice cream off my shirt the first day we met, even as I vehemently asserted,…
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By Stephanie Whitehead The Light of Adoption
Light—it comes in many different forms. From the sun during the day and sometimes the moon at night. From a…
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By Samantha Koellhoffer The Gift of Open Adoption
Ever since we met our daughter, we have been taking pictures of her. She is so used to the camera…
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By Crystal Fulmer In Defense of the Adopted
As I sit here in the throes of writing a book, I realize I’m at a crossroads. The story that…
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I’m Giving My Daughter Space To Define Her Adoption
I cracked a joke, and as I walked from the table, I heard her mutter to her friends, “Good thing…
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By Melissa Miller The Rollercoaster of Foster Care and Adoption
After spending most of their childhoods in foster care, Addy and her brother Dominick had never been to a birthday…
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By Tiffany Nardoni What You Don’t See Is the Way Jesus Builds Beauty from the Ashes
Here we are at a new church. Surrounded, again, by people. No one really knows me. They might know my…
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By Nikki Wheeler Douglas Dear Baby, as I Wait for You
Dear sweet baby, One day I will tell you of the path we have taken to lead us to you.…
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