Category: Adoption
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Catholic Culpability in Adoption
Let me begin by admitting that it’s taken me two months to write this. In early September, I read The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice by Maria Laurino, an Italian American journalist whose cousin adopted…
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Foundling Wheels, the Italian Baby Boxes
Previously I wrote about the fact that adoptees can’t be certain future generations will understand their biological origins unless they take action to ensure this information is preserved. I began to think about this issue due to a discovery I…
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Preserving Your Life Story as an Adoptee
In recent years as I’ve become more proficient in doing genealogical research and documentation, I’ve thought more and more about what my own descendants will be able to unearth about my life fifty or one hundred or even two hundred…
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The Never-ending Journey
I don’t think one ever recovers from losing a parent, no matter the nature of the loss. Losing anyone important to us comes with grief, and since parents are meant to be our foundation both biologically and socially, we mourn…
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Releasing Ourselves from Shame
Last week I noticed author Brené Brown posting some new downloadable graphics to commemorate the tenth anniversary of her book The Gifts of Imperfection. Immediately I decided I’d print out two of these and post one in my office and…
Karen Pickell: Between 