Stories

When you're the first teenager to get pregnant in your school, you're going to get talked about. I was really angry. I was angry at him, I was angry at myself. I've realized those were very, very...

Going to school pregnant, riding the bus…that was hard. You just have all the stares and you have all the questions. Even little kids make you nervous, just staring at you. When you get pregnan...

I had just turned 18 when I found out I was pregnant. Although I was young and it was unexpected, I felt an unbelievable amount of love for my unborn child. My parents pushed for adoption, especial...

My name is Angela and I chose adoption. I am originally from St. Louis. I was born and raised there. I took the test, and I was in shock. Like, this is not happening, what about my future? Compl...

I chose open adoption. My mom got mad at me. I had uncles and aunts mad at me. My grandma was mad at me. We adopt people into our family, but we don’t adopt out of our family. My aunt said i...

Finding out I was pregnant my senior year of high school was devastating. I did not want to believe it – it took three positive pregnancy tests to convince me that I was really pregnant. I h...

In the summer of 1996, shortly after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I went to Atlanta to work at the Summer Olympic Games. In August, I became pregnant. The bi...

Tarrah and Dale turned to adoption because they had always wanted several children. They chose China because it has a well-established relationship with the U.S. and there were so many Chinese ...

When I was 15 years old, I heard for the first time that in certain cases of adoption, a baby is adopted and grows up, never knowing who their birth parents are. That really surprised me. I wou...

It is common for transracially adopted children to be curious about their birth heritage and where they came. In my case, this curiosity did not appear until decades later. I was adopted in Taipei, ...