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What I Know About Motherhood Now That I Am An Adoptive Mother

Carrie Goldman | Posted 05.10.2013 | Parents
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Carrie Goldman

My three girls take turns being the squeaky wheel, and my focus on each girl waxes and wanes. What never wavers is my love. Whether flesh of my flesh or soul of my soul, I love each daughter as a whole.

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Equal Rights for All: It's Finally Time for Adopted People, Too

Adam Pertman | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
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Adam Pertman

As our country has focused enormous attention in recent days on the rights of one minority, gay men and lesbians, we continue (alas) to give short-shrift to the decades-long effort to achieve equality for millions of people in another segment of our population: Americans who were adopted into their families.

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10 Things Adoptees Want You to Know

Lesli Johnson | Posted 03.13.2013 | Parents
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Lesli Johnson

I was adopted as an infant, during a time when adoption was still shrouded in secrecy. My experience is not unique, but it is important. Here are ten of the ten thousand things adoptees want the world to know.

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Facebook Helps Adopted Teen Find Birth Mother

Posted 08.30.2011 | Impact
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NBC Today interviewed a family who found their adopted daughter's birth mother on Facebook. As Jessi Zachtel grew up, she found herself increasingly...

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A Civil Right: Adoptees Should Have Access to Their Birth Certificates

Adam Pertman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Adam Pertman

Most of the seven million adopted Americans are denied a right so basic that it almost sounds like a joke: They cannot get access to their own original birth certificates.

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Absurd Dilemmas Caused by Secrets in Closed Adoptions

Jean Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Jean Strauss

The secrets inherent in closed adoptions can create a lifetime of frustration and feelings of being second-class citizens -- and can also create absurd dilemmas.

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