[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

While the ongoing discussions here at FirstMotherForum sometimes take on a life of their own and the subject changes (see previous post) , I...

Copyright Lorraine Dusky (c) 2009 When I tried keeping a journal what came out was either a daily dose of woe-is-me or perfunctory note...

How do we deal with our reunited children--if we don't like them? Or, how does the media deal with adoption? The topic is the subject of...

While Big Love, HBO show on Mormonism and plural marriage, got it right in their final episode of the season, hospital drama ER ended with...

As readers of FMF know, my surrendered daughter Megan and I have had our differences, and we have not been in touch since August. However, s...

Adam Fuss Reproductive news is certainly all the rage these days. Following the story about surrogacy we've been discussing in the previ...

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...

Well, I just discovered what an unsung hero I am: I gave my daughter up for adoption! According to Gloria Whitcraft, director of Shepherd...

Heidi Hess Saxton Continued Catholic adoptive mother Heidi Hess Saxton contends that adoption is the answer for “children born to young teen...

Last week I borrowed a book from the library that wasn't my usual read; I wanted light, and this book, a suspense thriller with Russians...

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

Oh, who would have guessed? Who could have seen? Who could have possibly known? All these roads we have traveled, the places we’ve been woul...

The other day Dr. Phil did a show called Forced To Be a Father, about dads who feel tricked into fatherhood. The two guys on the show were ...

Just a short note here responding to a post from UnsignedMasterpiece about God's Will in this business we have unhappily found ourselves...

I spent the weekend before last in Denver with a charming group of about 30 mothers who came together for a few days to share their stories,...

Since I joined the virtual world nine years ago I’ve referred to some of the citizens as walking wounded, i.e., most people are in chat room...

A new law designed to help states cope with foster care has some good provisions--it encourages greater efforts to keep siblings together, ...

My life is totally surrounded by adoption. Maybe because I live in the demographic (though I am slightly older than this) of women who had c...

Thanks to Joyce Bahr from Unsealed Initiative for sending this: SUPPORTING PREGNANT TEENS TO MAKE EMPOWERED CHOICES A Free Half-Day Traini...

"In all of us is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are, and where we have come from. Without this enriching k...