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I'm feeling really upbeat today, the last day of 2013. It's my 45th wedding anniversary, 45 years with a wonderful patient, kind ...

Daughter Jane and Lorraine, 1983 Because I have been part of the adoption reform movement since the mid-Seventies, and see how little p...

Jane and Lorraine, 1983** This morning's New York Times carries the last column of Arthur S. Brisbane as The Public Editor,* wh...

Helen Gurley Brown in 1964 Helen Gurley Brown was a friend of mine. She was one of the few editors back in the day when I was "com...

Back to Find My Family because the show has certainly struck a nerve with lots of grumbling that it doesn't give adoptive parents the ...

Why has it been so damn difficult to give adopted people their original birth certificates? To do away with the noxious sealed-record laws a...

First the Bad News: The testimony of an adoptee on a legislative committee in South Dakota apparently quashed the open-records bill we had t...

The good news from South Dakota--that they passed an open-records bill with a contact preference--NOT VETO--is tempered somewhat. Apparently...

Rarely does FirstMother find ourselves in agreement with the religious right, but a law change in England brings us into rare, but direct, c...

Jane's post got me to thinking about my daughter's (also named Jane) first visit to my house on Long Island. She had just turned six...

Copyright Lorraine Dusky, 2009 Today there are approximately six million people in America who do not have the right to answer the questio...

Become a crusader and life never is boring...Today I'm thinking about that Arab curse that goes something like: May you live in interest...

I sent the following today to Adoption-News-Service, which supposedly is about "adoption reform," as it states on the bottom. ...

I've been thinking about all the pain and anguish that is evident from our own postings, and those that come through in the comments, an...

Last night I couldn't help myself, I delved into that book that started the terrible argument with my friend Yvonne over whether or not ...

This just in from Women's Entertainment (WE), home of Bridezilla, Platinum Weddings, Extreme Plastic Surgery : The Locator Are you look...