…I was just filled with anger all the time. That’s all I really feel about my existence. Anger.
(Originally published on AnonymousUs) Growing up it was just my mom, my two very involved godparents and me. I always knew I was missing a biological father. I always had to explain to my friends since the age of five why I don’t have a dad. I liked it, I got...
Illinois, don’t force insurance companies to fund child commodifying practices
Them Before Us exists to protect a child’s right to be known and loved by his or her mother and father. Therefore, we oppose legislation that encourages third party reproduction, a practice which severs a child’s connection with one or both biological parents....
Susan – I was 13 years old when Dad left the second time…Is it any surprise that I deal with depression?
My adoption was in the works before I was born. My adoptive parents had been married about 9 years and had been unable to get pregnant. My adoptive mother wanted nothing more than to be a mom. My bio-mother was married, but had been intimate with another woman’s...
