My search for identity leads to racial and ethnic shock waves
As an adopted child unsure of who or where she came from, Jen Santoro Rotty wanted to learn more about her origins and why others didn't see her as White. The half-Catholic, half-Jewish European ethnicities the adoption documents listed were glossy half-truths that Rotty later discovered were wrong. Very wrong.
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Fighting doubt about decision to have kids
Writer Tim Munkeby and his wife Mary have five kids. There were plenty of "what ifs" in the beginning, he says--What if we waited? What if we used contraception? But knowing what he knows now, Munkeby says they would have regretted any decision not to have kids.
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Am I up for the challenge again?
"While family and friends tell us not to give up on our dream of having two children, the reality is it may not happen in the time frame I hope." A mother contemplates whether she is up to the challenge of adopting and parenting an infant again.
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