What is Black Market Adoption? The History Behind America’s Hidden Baby Trade
Most people assume adoption has always worked the way it does today. A licensed agency. A home study. A court proceeding. A paper trail. They assume there were always safeguards. There weren’t.
Celebrating My DNA Hero on National Adoption Day
It was then that the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, Dr. Kary Mullis, the brains behind the polymerase chain reaction technique (PCR), the man whose discovery The New York Times described as “dividing biology into the two epochs of before P.C.R. and after P.C.R.,” leaned forward with a question.
“So Patricia, tell me about you,” he asked, as if I was the interesting person in the room.
TWICE THE ADOPTION MEMOIR: An Adoptee Twin Doubles Down on Her Adoption Story
TWICE THE ADOPTION MEMOIR: An Adoptee Twin Doubles Down on Her Adoption Story ADOPTION MEMOIR REVIEW by Patricia Knight Meyer “Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” Author Julie Ryan McGue | Available Feb. 4, 2025 | She Writes Press | Memoir / Nonfiction As a small child, I often fantasized […]
CUB Retreat 2024: A Transformative Experience for This Adoptee
As an adoptee, I recently had the privilege of attending the CUB (Concerned United Birthparents) Retreat 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. Having attended two Untangling Our Roots conferences, I had met several first mothers who encouraged me to join them at CUB. I knew this event would be wonderful and healing, as it provides an inclusive space for first parents and adoptees to connect, share, and learn from eachother.
“Parallel Universes” by David B. Bohl – An Adoptee Memoir to Remember
Like the sailboats dotting David’s life, his story glides across the page; a sturdy hull gracefully parting the sea of his dark past, propelled by resilience, telltales of truth leading the way. A natural born storyteller, David’s prose washes the page with sobering detail. Like a tide, it ebbs and flows, navigating the jetties of his life.
10 Year Adoptee / Birth Father Reunion Anniversary: A Video Tribute
This is a video my daughter and I made in honor of our 10 year reunion with my birth father, who at 69 years old learned he had a daughter and grand daughter in this world. We all shared ten glorious years together, before his passing on Nov. 3, 2021. Though never given the opportunity […]
Our Alternate Universe: A Mother’s Day Letter to My Biological Step-Mother
From the moment we met, I knew you were not just my birth father’s wife, but that you’d somehow always been a mother I’d been missing. Nanny, the day I met you, I did not feel like you were going to become “like a mother to me,” I felt you already were. I immediately felt […]
The Day I Asked to Be Un-Adopted
“Please don’t be sad Mommy, but I figure I should live with Dora. She is not old like you, she has freckles like me, and she can give me a brother. See, I will be right there!” I said pointed through the slatted window panes across the side yard toward my future home. You can watch me play with my brother!” I assured her. “All you have to do is let Dora be my new mommy.”
A Memoir About an Adoption that Never Happened.
A memoir about an adoption that never happened. It is a black market baby’s story about the parents who held onto her as tightly as they did her secret, and the mother who let her go. It is about one woman’s walk home, a journey back to self, a healing of primal wounds, to claim her truth and correct her identity.
Adoptees & Divorce
Articles about adoption and divorce, exploring how adoption experiences impact relationships and family dynamics.
