child trauma - Them Before Us

Hannah T.’s story | “I have sat on my grandma’s couch more than once crying, asking why my life turned out different than my siblings.”

by Them Before Us | Jan 16, 2022 | EXPORT, Stories

My parents divorced when I was 11 years old. There are 5 of us children and I’m in the middle. When I was young, my father was a preacher, and I became a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 6. During this part of our childhood our mom was a...

Sarah St. Onge’s story | “I needed a father, as do most other girls growing up in single parent homes.”

by Them Before Us | Jul 29, 2020 | EXPORT, Stories

In 2016 I purchased an Ancestry DNA test. It sat on my counter for a week before I spit into the tube and mailed it out — sending my genetic material off into the universe, hoping to find some information about myself and where I came from. The idea was terrifying in...

You Can’t Fix Tough Adoptions With ‘Re-Homing,’ Only Faithfulness

by Katy Faust | Jun 3, 2020 | The Latest

(Originally published at The Federalist) Myka Stauffer of YouTube fame has “re-homed” her autistic, adopted Chinese child, Huxley. Stauffer became widely known in large part due to the video documentation of her adoption journey. Huxley’s emotional gotcha-day video...

Stephanie’s story | “I cannot express adequately how the trauma of my childhood has carried over into my adult years.”

by Them Before Us | May 15, 2020 | EXPORT, Stories

When I was just a toddler, my mom married my stepfather. She had just dissolved her marriage with my biological father mere months earlier. My stepfather brought 3 of his own children to the marriage. He had been divorced from their mother. My baby brother was a...