[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

Jane in 1968 Thanksgiving has always been intertwined with the birth of my surrendered daughter Rebecca* and our reunion. She was born ...

Jane, DMC, and Jeanette Roberts at AAC 3-8-07 I met the rapper, Darryl McDaniels ( DMC)  in 2007 when I attended the annual conference ...

Jane Money talks when it comes to social change. That's a lesson for those of us pushing for legislation allowing adult adoptees to...

Lorraine Continuing the story of my daughter's strange and hurtful behavior, when we had been close and she suddenly pulled back an...

Jane & Julie at Chinatown Gate Jane here. I'm at the American Adoption Conference in San Francisco with my husband, Jay. Along ...

Jean Paton, the pioneer of adoption reform was not an activist; that was left to adoptee Florence Fisher, as well as our own first mother...

Jane and Lorraine sometime in the 90s. Continuing the story of my relationship with my daughter, as she came and went over more than a ...

Jane Thanksgiving, 1966. I am in a small room in a residential hotel in San Francisco's tenderloin district, eating takeout turkey ...

Lorraine NOTE: If you read the blog since last night, there have been several ads at the bottom. Should first/birth mothers search for...

This is a continuation of a blog I started Monday, January 26 of an exchange of emails between my surrendered daughter Megan and myself. Alt...

My surrendered daughter Megan and I reunited in November, 1997 just after she turned 31. Although we have much in common and get along when ...