Birth Fathers

12/10/2024

Looking for your next book reads. Check out my post on www.myadoptedlife.com to learn more about these three 2024 additions to the conversation from and Monica Hall Author, adoptee Rebecca Wellington and first mother Julia MacDonnell Chang. Read the post at https://myadoptedlife com/three-dont-miss-adoption-books/

I am excited to share with you my thoughts on the Rebecca’s and Monica’s wonderful books, which have touched my heart and kept me awake on a few long trips between New Orleans and Texas lately.

23/08/2024

Hey I have a small ask. If you have read RELINQUISHED by Gretchen Sisson - please take a moment to go give this book a review on Amazon. As an author, reviews are the lifeblood of positioning and sales on Amazon, when they do well their comps (books that follow in their path) do well. This is an amazing book, and we need more books like RELINQUISHED to be picked up by agents and publishers. In my opinion, this book is every bit as well written and valuable to furthering discussion as AMERICAN BABY by Gabrielle Glaser which has seen huge success on Amazon. Let's take a min and lift up Gretchen's RELINQUISHED and get her the Amazon reviews this book surely deserves. And for those who have not read it yet, please buy it and then leave a review. Thanks so much!

16/07/2024

Today marks 14 years in reunion with my Pop Jerry Knight and my Knight family. He and I shared 11 before he passed. He said he would have raised me had he known I existed, and while I wish I could hold both families and realities, one in each hand, I cannot. This is and the conundrum of for the . I would not be who I am today, have my daughter or grandkids or adoptive family, if not for the severance from my original family and identity, so I can't say I would undo the past. But I do certainly mourn for the years taken away from us and wonder about that other version of me, the one that almost was. Would she have been a better, worse or just different version of me? If you have been blessed with the luck of a healthy reunion, hold it close to your heart and cherish every moment while it lasts.

25/06/2024

If Pop were still on this earth, he would surely share this Medium story here, that I wrote for Father's Day two years ago, recently published on Adoptere by Melissa Corrigan: https://medium.com/adoptere/a-fathers-day-post-from-the-west-end-of-galveston-island-eb660a443429

17/03/2024

I never forget how lucky I am to have found him. Yes, I was one of the few lucky adoptees to reunite and have not just a good, but a great, reunion.

30/04/2023

Guest Patricia Knight Meyer is an author, journalist, and content creator. She was relinquished for adoption by her birth mother. In her adult life Patricia was in reunion with both her birth mother and father. Her website is myadoptedlife.com where you can learn more about her adoption story.

17/10/2022

Patty McCraw grew up never knowing her father, and finally found him thanks to a DNA test. Watch their moving reunion here.