Tag: adoption

One elderly man’s attempt to combat crushing loneliness.

Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.

A.M. Homes wrestles with her ambivalence toward learning more about her birth parents and the circumstances of her adoption.

Nicole Chung reflects on the burden of engaging with racism and educating white people, including some in her own family.

After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.

The poetry of cooking, the power of memory, and rejecting limits for women in the male-dominated culinary industry.

Heather Matarazzo, who made her film breakthrough in 1995’s Welcome to the Dollhouse and has appeared on shows including Grey’s Anatomy, is now blogging about her life and her experiences in Hollywood. Her latest piece is a deeply personal one, about the curiosity and fear that came with secretly searching for her biological parents: I’m […]

An illiterate child from a small town in India falls asleep on a train and ends up lost in Calcutta, unable to find his way back home. Twenty-five years later, while living with his adoptive family in Australia, he locates his lost hometown using memories and Google Earth: This was it, the name of the […]

“How open do you want your relationship with the adoptive parents to be?” I ask after some more small talk. She shrugs. “I’ll figure that out later,” she says. “I’m talking to two other families. One keeps drunk texting me that they want a girl. They want a white baby, which this is.” I expect […]

Tonight, in a modest brick row house in the sleepy city of Carthage, beyond the Ozark Mountains and the mines of southwest Missouri, past the poultry plants and churches along Interstate 44 and U.S. 71, down the block from the Jasper County courthouse and historic town square, a five-year-old boy is going to bed. Chances […]