[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

By Lorraine Dusky and Jane Edwards Lorraine Dusky Making adoption more attractive to women with unplanned pregnancies is a “worthwhil...

Lorraine In the last post,* we dealt with the corrosive effect of secrecy in adoption, and some wrote about the secrecy that many first...

Sept.1, 2013 cover of New Republic First Mother Forum is included as a place where you can "Meet the New Anti-Adoption Mov...

Is that Grandpa or Dad on the right? One of the best known and biggest adoption agencies in New York City, Spence-Chapin, is stopping...

Catelynn and Tyler talk to Carly on her birthday When Catelynn and Tyler relinquished their newborn daughter Carly  to Brandon and T...

Not an adoptive mother "Julia [the mother] left the hospital the next day without stopping in the nursery—the baby was in an inc...

Lorraine So, after dissecting The Adoption Option from the Center for American Progress, let us look at their proposed reforms:    Ja...

Jane So, asks The Adoption Option , what can be done to ensure “that adoption remains an ethical and effective option for women facing a...

Jane "Birth mothers who participated in more recent open adoptions... found that approximately two-thirds reported a feeling of peac...

Lorraine Is enticing more American women to reject raising their own child in favor of “the adoption option” for their new...