
What is Black Market Adoption? The History Behind America's Hidden Baby Trade
June 4, 2026
Most people assume adoption has always worked the way it does today. A licensed agency. A home study. A court proceeding. A paper trail. They assume there were always safeguards. T…

2025-2026 Must-Reads: Six Adoption Books That Crack Open Family Secrets and Tell Our Truths, Plus a Bonus Book
December 31, 2025
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…

Celebrating My DNA Hero on National Adoption Day
November 22, 2025
It was then that the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, Dr. Kary Mullis, the brains behind the polymerase chain reaction technique (PCR), the man whose discovery The New York Times de…

2024 Gave Us 15 Powerful Adoption Books: The Hits and Hidden Gems"
December 4, 2024
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…

Six New Adoption Books for Eggcellent Spring Reading
March 27, 2024
Is it just me or does 2024 seem to be showing itself as the year of adoption books? Weekly, I find myself adding a new adoption book to my cart. Adoptee, adoptive parent, and first…

A Dozen Shareable Doozies: 12 Gretchen Sisson Quotes on Adoption
March 15, 2024
12 Gretchen Sisson Quotes from a recent discussion of "RELINGQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood."

Summer Reading: The Adoption Memoirs Inside this Adoptee’s Beach Bag
July 11, 2023
“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.…

Eight Books That Healed This Adoptee's Heart
May 28, 2023
Books to help adoptees heal core adoption issues, including adoption trauma, abandonment, attachment, loss, grief, and identity.

A Mother's Day Book Review: GOD AND JETFIRE, by Amy Seek
May 13, 2023
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.

Claiming Your Voice Podcast Interview
May 1, 2023

Paying It Forward: My Dream to Offer an Adoption Writing Residency in the Vintage Trailer Where I was Conceived
April 30, 2023
Reunited adoptee plans to offer adoptee writing residency in the vintage Spartanette Trailer where she was conceived.

GUEST POST: Why Is That Controversial? Adoptees have a stake in the fight to protect abortion rights.
May 10, 2022
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…