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The Name
Read more: The NameMy relationship with my name has been complicated over the years. The name came to be assigned to me at birth by my mother, who wanted to mash together Charlotte and a piece of her own name. Hence, I have been bestowed a name that requires me to pronounce it three times at each introduction,…
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Groundbreaking Relationships With Angela Legg
Read more: Groundbreaking Relationships With Angela LeggThe world that seemed normal to Angela Legg as she grew up didn’t look normal to the society that surrounded her. She didn’t realize this until she was much older. In her life, she had two loving female caregivers and two brothers who gave her the appropriate hard time for being their little sis. She…
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The Voices in My Head
Read more: The Voices in My HeadI look back with a bit of embarrassment at the snapshot in my head of the time when I sat on my living room carpet in a patch of sunlight as a teen and listened to my mother’s religious psychology radio show. At that time, I heard heart-warming stories of loving families with children who…
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The Story of How my Life was Touched by Adoption and Foster Care
Read more: The Story of How my Life was Touched by Adoption and Foster CareIn this episode, I introduce you to who I am and what my adoption and foster care journey has been like. It has taken me quite a while to reach the point where I was ready to put my background in the spotlight for a few reasons. I was incredibly eager in the early days…
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The Adoptee Citizenship Surprise
Read more: The Adoptee Citizenship SurpriseWhen some adoptees discover they aren’t US citizens, it can already be too late. Paperwork memories stapled to my brain Even though my experience finalizing our international adoption took place about 20 years ago the pile of paperwork we sifted through will not leave my memory. At one point, we went through dozens of individual…
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An Adoptive Parent rethinks International Adoption with Marjie Alonso
Read more: An Adoptive Parent rethinks International Adoption with Marjie AlonsoAs adoptive parents, we often try our best to do our research to find a program to adopt through that seems ethical. Sometimes we find out later that the situation our adopted children were in was far more complicated than we initially thought. Marjie Alonso adopted two young boys from Paraguay. The boys were not…
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Parenting Advice From an Adoptee and Expert with Bryan Post
Read more: Parenting Advice From an Adoptee and Expert with Bryan PostParenting is not an easy task. Bryan Post, an adoptee and Therapist, used his own experience as well as research and training to develop a technique that involves what he calls a love-based approach to parenting. This technique considers the attachment children have toward their caregivers, but even more so, centers on the bonding experienced…
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Lynelle Long Leads Adoptees to Help Each Other and Educate the Rest of Us
Read more: Lynelle Long Leads Adoptees to Help Each Other and Educate the Rest of UsWhen Lynelle Long wanted to connect with other international adoptees like herself as an adult, she had a hard time finding them. She decided that there should be a better way for adoptees to connect, so she built it. Now her organization, Inter Country Adoptee Voices, offers a refuge for adoptees all over the world…
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Erasing Some of the Mystery About First Mothers
Read more: Erasing Some of the Mystery About First MothersThere are a lot of opinions flying around these days about women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. With abortion allowances varying from state to state and people of different political persuasions imposing their expectations on these women, it is easy to forget who they are, if we ever knew. Often, women in this…
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Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen Sisson
Read more: Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen SissonThere is a lot of debate that centers around women who relinquish their children. We talk about who they might be and why they might be making the decisions they are, often without any insight into the reality of their experience. One of the reasons we guess is that there isn’t a lot of readily…
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