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Who Am I?
I met Wendy at a hotel I was staying at in Hawaii. She had heard of my magazine and offered me her story of adopting her younger brother. Wendy is a remarkable young woman, who survived horrendous...
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Leslie and Me
Publisher’s note: This post is longer than the ones I normally publish, but it is worth every minute of your time. Please enjoy a most unusual adoption story....
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Up For Debate: Is anyone ever “too old” to be adopted?
Is it ever “too late” or is anyone ever “too old” to be adopted? Have any of you had this experience in any way?
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The Big News (Part 1)
Publisher’s note: I am so pleased that in this Father’s Day edition, I have found a birth father who is willing and very capable to tell his story. Birth fathers are the absent voices in the adoption...
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Emotional Debt In Open Adoption
My wife and I opened a small business together. Unfortunately for us, we happened to start up in the summer of 2008- right before the economic crash. Although the economy was just starting to fall...
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An Adoptee’s Husband Speaks
Note from Deanna: Today I’m featuring the first guest post ever here at Adoptee Restoration. Being that the topic this week is marriage and adoptees, I thought it would be a great idea to invite the...
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“If You People (Adoptive Parents) Did your Job Right…”
You people. Our kids.. Pronouns aimed at me. An adoptive talkative mother. On an airplane. Let me explain. Today’s flight was a short one so after stuffing my overnight baggage in the upper...
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“The Open Adoption Experiment” By an Anonymous 16 Year Old Adoptee
Open adoption, which has many and varied definitions, was an idea born out of the negative impacts of the secrecy surrounding adoption for so many years. Sharon Roszia, adoptive mother, social worker,...
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Visit Backlash in Open Adoptions
When my daughter, Ashley first moved into our family as a foster-adoptive placement, she had a visitation schedule of two visits per year with her biological mother. One of those visits occurred...
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When Your Birth Mother Says “No”
One of the most painful possibilities for any adoptee who is searching or considering a search for their birth mother is that she will say “no” to contact. The fear of this is what keeps many adoptees...
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I’m Raising Someone Else’s Children
Lori and Crystal On a spring day 12 years ago, Crystal was about to leave the hospital after giving birth the day before. We’d recently met through the adoption agency we’d both consulted, and we’d...
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Open Adoption Open Heart By: Russell Elkins
Publishers Message: I am fortunate to have several contributors who are also authors of books. I will occasionally review the books, and then give you a link so that you can purchase them on Amazon....
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American Babies Exported for Adoption
Dear Readers, As you are enjoying your Fourth of July holiday, I wanted to share with you a fascinating article by Mirah Riben. I had heard years ago that not only did Americans adopt children from...
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Every Adoption Starts With The Tragedy
This edition of the magazine is devoted to first mother’s, natural mothers and birth mothers. Thank you to Deanna Schrodes for those powerful words and insight. 26 years ago, when I adopted my twin...
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An Open Letter to Birth Mothers
This road we have been on as mothers removed, as I often say, is one ever evolving journey deep into the heart that no other soul could EVER understand unless they themselves have been there. It can...
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She Was Just 17
Publisher’s Note: Leslie is currently a well-known and highly respected social worker and birth mother advocate. Her story is a chapter in Ann Fessler’s groundbreaking book, which I review this week in...
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Dear Christian Who is Praying for An Infant to Adopt
Adoption has been compared to marriage. This past week one of my Twitter followers retweeted a Facebook post with a quote by an adoptive mother named Joan McNamara. McNamara says: “It has been said...
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The Girls Who Went Away
I am a part of the generation of women who remember the girls who went away. In my high school, she was a cheerleader who dated a football player, became pregnant and virtually disappeared our senior...
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The Baby Scoop Era Research Initiative
Founded in 2007 by Karen Wilson Buterbaugh, BSERI is dedicated to research, education and inquiry into the period of American adoption history known as the Baby Scoop Era. The Baby Scoop Era Research...
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A Cracked Vessel
Publisher’s Note: This week’s theme is all about adoptees and their readiness to deal with what it means to be adopted. Every category of the magazine is devoted to this topic. I asked Linda Hoye,...
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