Every year, I seek out books that speak our truth loud and proud. I am happy to report that 2025-2026 is delivering five remarkable books jammed full of adoption and DNA surprise t…
"Adoption trauma is about liminal loss—loss that is vague, ambiguous, ever-present, and not publicly mourned. But it's also about liminal hope—an unspoken, against-all-odds hope th…
“I tell them I understand how terrifying it can be, for someone who has been abandoned to trust in love, but after 50 years, I’ve finally taken the leap, and I have never – ever – …
Discover adoption books for your spring reading by and about adoptees. From Alice Stephens' "Famous Adopted People" to emerging voices in adoption literature.
Adoption Book Review: An Adoption Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” by Julie Ryan McGue,, Available Feb. 4, 2025 | Memoir / Nonfiction
As we reflect on 2024's remarkable contributions to adoption literature, I'm struck by the depth, courage, and compassion these authors bring to our community's ongoing conversatio…
12 Gretchen Sisson Quotes from a recent discussion of "RELINGQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood."
A Search Angel plays a crucial role in adoption search support, helping individuals reunite with birth parents, adoptees, and other relatives. These dedicated individuals form netw…
Yet no matter how supported we feel online, it does not compare with being together in flesh and blood. A moment when we join forces to stand up for not just what we believe, but w…
Like the sailboats dotting David’s life, his story glides across the page; a sturdy hull gracefully parting the sea of his dark past, propelled by resilience, telltales of truth le…
“Where better to read an adoption memoir than on the beach in front of my childhood home,” I thought, stuffing more books than I knew I’d be able to make time for into my suitcase.…
Books to help adoptees heal core adoption issues, including adoption trauma, abandonment, attachment, loss, grief, and identity.
A piece on the healing power of the adoption constellation & a mini-retreat by the National Association of Adoptees and Parents (NAAP)
Book review of GOD AND JETFIRE by Amy SEEK, review written by Adoptee Patricia Ann Knight Meyer to honor birth mothers on this difficult day.
Tony Corsetino offers an adoptee's perspective on abortion right, a hot topic among adoptees: "There is an enormous moral difference, however, between relinquishment and adoption a…
An interview with WHIV Radio on meeting my birth mother.
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