[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

Celebrating our 25th anniversary  Today is our 33rd wedding anniversary and after we did a quick stop at a church yard sale this mornin...

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...

Reunited without birth certificate, Jane (l) and Lorraine All birth certificates will be unsealed one day, William (Bill) Pierce, who f...

Lorraine The conversation about the previous post led to me saying that it could best be answered by posting what preceded that in t...

Lorraine, not quite incognito Last weekend at a party on a backyard deck in the Hamptons, I am introduced to a man I have no recollect...

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...

Jane Thanks to one of our readers, we saw this gem of misinformation in Dear Abby’s column of June 27. ADOPTED SON'S NAME CHANGE CU...

Jane Sometime ago, I played duplicate bridge every week with an older woman, Nellie. Over the course of several years, my bridge partner ...

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...