Adoption

RESILIENT. PROCESSING. FOUNDLING. I always knew that I was adopted, as did my three younger brothers, each of us adopted as infants. On the few occasions when the topic of […]

INDEPENDENT. RESILIENT. DETERMINED. Everything I know about my “beginnings” is what I was told by the adults in my world and sometimes their stories didn’t quite align. I just have

DRIVEN. INTELLIGENT. PERCEPTIVE. I was born in 1970 and raised in the Dallas, Texas, area by two loving parents. My dad was a pilot, and my mom stayed at home

INQUISITIVE. DOGGED. IMPASSIONED. I am a step-adoptee. Until three years ago, I never said these words to myself. It’s not that I didn’t know that my stepfather had adopted me,

GENUINE. COMPASSIONATE. HOPEFUL. The day after Mother’s Day 2018 my 92-year-old mother decided to tell me a secret she had withheld from me my entire 54 years on this planet.

LOYAL. DRIVEN. CONSISTENT. I’m a late reunion adoptee. I was born in the state of Ohio in the late 50s to an unwed interracial couple that had just graduated from

CREATIVE. TENACIOUS. ARTIST. My name is Andre Williams. Born in March 1994, I was brought to The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) by emergency services sometime during the day of my

MAKER. PRGAMTIST. SOLVER I always knew I was adopted. My adoptive parents used to say, “When we got David” as compared to “When David was born.” I suppose that’s what