Among the hundred thousand worries adoptive parents harbor before, during and long after their adoption has been finalized, one of the most common concerns focuses on their child's family history, which includes, of course, the possibility of inherited diseases about which there is no way of knowing.

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I am an adoptive mother of one Ethiopian-born girl. I also am a writer with a passionate belief that in order for our planet to survive, all children, everywhere, need to be provided with the opportunity to go to school. In a utopian world, all children would remain...

On April 4, 2011, a healthy baby girl was born in Ethiopia's Southern Nations Nationalities of Peoples Region (SNNPR) in the Kembata Tembaro Zone. At the same time that this new life emerged, another life ended; the girl's mother died while giving birth. The baby girl was now considered a...

In this age of 24/7 access to social/news media, we are right as parents to question how much we share with a global public what goes on in the privacy of our homes.

Once upon a time, not so very long ago actually, when baby's first birthday arrived, photograph sharing...

It is far more powerful to live your truth than to preach it. --Rasha

On March 29, 2012 Huffington Post published an article that I wrote in late January in which I intimately describe an incident involving my daughter. The contents depict an experience that included addressing the...

Sitting around the supper table, my four-year-old, Ethiopian-born daughter recently asked me, "Who is your birth mommy?"

"Nana," I said, a bit stunned; she has only uttered the term "birth mother" three, maybe four times, and not recently. "Your nana is my birth mommy."

She looked at me without...

"I respect the secrets and magic of nature. That's why it makes me so angry when I see these things that are happening, you know, that every second, I hear, the size of a football field is torn down in the Amazon. I mean, that kind of stuff really bothers...