Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.

First-person accounts by birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children examines how adoption, including open and multiracial adoption, impacts individua

This work provides a deeper understanding of how the adoption process works and supports children with the feelings they have about adoption. Mental health inte

Sixteen essays ranging from lyric essays to narrative journalism address how we make sense of what we cannot know, how we make change in the world, how we heal,

Tell me again about the night I was born . . Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents... Tell me again about the first time you held me in your ar