Stories from Adoptive Parents
Sharing Rebecca: A Mother’s Story of Her Daughter’s Open Adoption
By Ann Power, Ann Powers recently moved to Los Angeles with her family to become the chief pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times. "Look at those curls!" coos the docent at our local zoo as my daughter, Rebecca, 2, extends her chubby fist for a moth-shaped hand stamp. "Just like her mommy," says the woman, giving me that…
Open Adoption Seven Years Later
From an Oct. 25, 2004, letter written to the OA&FS staff by adoptive mother Diane Tyson: I read with enthusiasm the 2003-2004 Annual Report and felt compelled to write. Congratulations on the continued success of your agency and the groundbreaking education you provide to all parties involved. We started out with your agency, going through the workshops and the evening…
Open Adoption: Ed & Kurt’s Story/Sibling Revelry
Love Makes a Family By Ed Lazzara During the adoption process, OA&FS informed us that Leo has a full-blooded sister who was placed for adoption two years ago in a nearby city. We talked about raising a family for many years but were never quite satisfied with the options available to us. Overseas adoption would require us to hide our…
First Steps: Building an Open Adoption
by Sharon Lind With the help of OA&FS, Sharon and Russ Lind have been blessed with two children through open adoptions. They live in a small community southeast of Seattle, WA, where Sharon pursues her careers as a stay-at-home mom, free-lance writer and avid reader of Dr. Seuss. In addition, they are actively involved in a local adoptive families support…
Waiting
With the help of Open Adoption & Family Services, Sharon and Russ Lind have been blessed with two children through open adoptions. They live in a small community southeast of Seattle, WA, where Sharon pursues her careers as a stay-at-home mom, free-lance writer and avid reader of Dr. Seuss. In addition, they are actively involved in a local adoptive families…
Fathering Adopted Children or Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Erik Bergman, adoptive father of two daughters wrote this article for the Open Page, the newsletter of Open Adoption & Family Services. Ernest Hemingway is reputed to have said that a man becomes a man once he does four things: plant a tree, fight a bull, write a novel and father a son. (He probably proclaimed this after he'd accomplished…