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This Incredible Adoption Story Shows the Power of Parents’ Love

By Catherine Pearson — 2019

“We said we would give the best life for however much time she had.”

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Instant Mom

In Instant Mom, Nia Vardalos, writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, tells her hilarious and poignant road-to-parenting story that eventually leads to her daughter and prompts her to become a major advocate for adoption.

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Nia Vardalos
2025
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Adopting a Child of a Different Race? Let’s Talk | Susan Devan Harness | TEDxMileHigh

Every year, thousands of children are adopted by parents of a different race—what we call “transracial adoption.” It can provide tremendous benefits, like a higher quality of living & a better education—but a significant psychological toll, too.

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2019
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Lisa and Jessica, Adoptive Mom and Birth Mom, Are Friends in Adoption

A real adoption story. Adoptive mom Lisa and birthmother Jessica have something in common: David, their son. In this video, both women share their experiences through Open Adoption.

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2011
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Advice from a Birth Mom to Adoptive Parents || Love Multiplies

In this must see video, birthmother Ashley Mitchell encourages us with her perspective on adoption as a birth mother. Her advice is straight to the point and filled with wisdom for current or prospective of adoptive families.

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2018
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Destined for Motherhood: A Story of Adoption and Surrogacy

“Telling Your Adoption Story” is dedicated to telling real stories about the joys and challenges of the adoption journey. We talk about infant and international adoption, foster to adopt, and embryo adoption.

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2019
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Journey to Motherhood—Adoption

Lindsey talks about adopting her baby.

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2014
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Adoption Story: The Day I Met My Son / This Is My Motherhood with Channel Mum

Aimee always wanted to adopt, and she has gone on to adopt 2 beautiful children. She shares UK adoption advice and information over on her YouTube channel Aimee Vlogs.

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2020
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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s

Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.

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Laura L. Engel
2022
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.

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Ann Fessler
2025
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid’s tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that.

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Nefertiti Austin
2019
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