Adoptive Parents

My niece was adopted 35 years ago -- and never told! My niece was adopted 35 years ago -- and never told!

I feel that she should know the truth -- but should I tell her?
By Cary Tennis Sep 18, 2008

  • Should I become an egg donor -- to pay off my loans?

    I'm troubled by the ethical implications of taking money for my ova.
    By Cary Tennis January 25, 2007

  • Damaged goods

    The parents of a murderer sue adoption workers, claiming they should have been told about the boy's mentally ill birth mother.
    By Beth Broeker February 24, 2000

  • Torn to pieces

    Brothers and sisters in foster care, rarely adopted together, are routinely split and scattered, never to see each other again.
    By Nell Bernstein February 16, 2000

  • One mother's gain

    The third in a trilogy of stories by three women whose lives were changed forever by adoption.
    By Maurine Zarlengo Christ January 6, 1999

  • My mother's daughter

    Part Two of a trilogy by three women whose lives were forever changed by adoption -- the teenager who gave her child up, the girl she gave away and the woman who became that girl's mother.
    By Kristina Zarlengo January 5, 1999

  • interracial adoption: One couple's story, part 2

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 5, 1997

  • Interracial adoption: One couple's story

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 4, 1997
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