Do You Have Any Children? A Birthmother Speaks to the Personal & the Political
By Scarleteen
Category: Lifestyle › Parenting
Ask me "Do you have any children?" and I hesitate. In this piece I tell how I chose an open adoption and my ongoing role as a birth mother to my now 12 year old daughter. I write about the open adoption experience, the joy and grief of placement, adoption stigma, abortion and tough pregnancy choices.