by Them Before Us | Dec 23, 2021 | Stories
A miracle baby. That’s what my parents always said I was. After 12 years of marriage and much agony, I had been conceived. They had never been so happy. I had never doubted that I was wanted. But there it was… right in the baby book my grandmother had put...
by Them Before Us | Jul 19, 2021 | Stories
(Originally published on Tangled Webs UK) Discovering, aged 32, that I was donor conceived was, to put it mildly, a bombshell. It made complete sense, explaining the lack of similarity to my social father, not to mention the tensions between us. It explained why I...
by Them Before Us | Mar 12, 2021 | Stories
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...
by Them Before Us | Jan 16, 2021 | The Latest
Marriage: Many believe that the institution of marriage is becoming obsolete, evidenced by historically low marriage rates. Further, marriage is increasingly believed to be a private contract intended to gratify adult desires. However, for children, marriage has...
by Them Before Us | Dec 29, 2020 | Stories
(Originally published on Reddit) Right away, I want to make something clear: I’m not a homophobe. My sister is gay, many of my friends are gay. If anything, even though I’m straight, having gay parents made me more comfortable with people in the LGBTQ+ scene. It never...
