I’m adopted and several years ago I was privileged to learn some of my back story from my birthmom. I came crashing onto the scene under less than stellar circumstances. My biological mom was a musician who ended up in an adulterous affair with a married man – a married man who had 6 children. […]
It Was Because I Loved Him That I Had to Let Him Go, adoption poetry by Patricia Lawrence
It Was Because I Loved Him That I Had to Let Him Go I went through the labor, but never held him in my arms as I gave him for adoption so others saw his childhood charms. But it has always been my prayer that all these years he did know — it was because […]
What Exceptions Do You Make? by Kyler Kiessling, born to a teen drug addict
What exceptions do you make? What about a teenaged girl who has been testing positive for heroine and has been in and out of jail? Should she have had the choice to abort me? What about a baby who the doctors say will have a lot of serious health problems when she’s born? Should my […]