Left: My daughter and me. Right: Our rescue dog, Winter. Six weeks is a long time to live without a name. But I didn’t have one for the first six weeks of my life. I wasn’t aware of this until the ...

When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...

At the age of 5, gunshots and sirens were my lullaby. I was exposed to gangs, prostitution, drugs, and abuse before most kids learn their ABCs. My earliest memories are walking to the bus stop for ...

While adoption is wonderful in many ways, it comes with its own set of unique challenges. Sometimes, those challenges come from other people making incorrect assumptions. Lisa Schieff, 30, was adopted ...

In honor of National Adoption Day, the award-winning actress and singer writes about her experience as an adopted child In honor of National Adoption Day on Nov. 21, award-winning actress and singer ...

PITTSFIELD — In many ways, family separation erases who you are. Your last name no longer has any meaning, especially if your birth family is no longer in your life. If you have siblings, that ...

The phone rang. A woman picked up the phone as she prayed with eagerness it was the call she had been waiting for. Nine months of waiting to be exact. “Hello,” she said into the phone. “Hello ma’am.

I would rather jump through a glass window than talk to literally anyone about reproductive politics. Church friend from childhood? Glass window. Tipsy coworker at happy hour? Glass window. Given the ...

Since the trauma of maternal separation is preverbal, my body remembered being ripped away from my birth mother, even if I didn’t yet have language for it. However, when my mom somehow evaded my ...