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Susan’s story | “I was 13 years old when Dad left the second time…Is it any surprise that I deal with depression?”

Susan’s story | “I was 13 years old when Dad left the second time…Is it any surprise that I deal with depression?”

by Them Before Us | Mar 12, 2021 | Stories | 2 comments

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...
Why We Really Can’t Celebrate Both Surrogacy and Mother’s Day

Why We Really Can’t Celebrate Both Surrogacy and Mother’s Day

by Katy Faust | May 10, 2020 | The Latest | 4 comments

Originally published at The Daily Signal When it comes to motherhood, our cultural stream produces both salt water and fresh water: We declare mothers to be irreplaceable in one breath, and say that mothers are completely optional in the next. While the nation was...

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