Why Do I Cry When You Sing?

Because I get to hear you sing. I get to see the life in your face.

adoption, birthmother, parenting, childSally BacchettaNovember 13, 2018adoption, adoptive parents, mother, birthmother, singing Comments

10 Reasons Adoptive Parents Shouldn't Change Their Child's Name

I'm unsettled when adoptive parents change their child's name from their originally given name. So much is unknown; so much is unrecoverable. Can't you let that remain intact?

adoption, birth mother, children, parentingSally BacchettaMarch 19, 2018children, child, name, adoptive parents, birth motherComment

Should Adoptive Parents Be There for the Birth?

No woman can predict 100% how she will feel about her child once it's no longer part of her body, when she can gaze and marvel and bond in a completely different way.

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