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What I Know (The Gertz Family)
I don’t know the Gertz’s. We live maybe 12 miles apart in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, but we have never met. Never at a doctor’s office. Never at a psychiatric hospital on a visiting day. Never at an in person or online support group meeting. I have no idea if the Gertz’s ever joined…
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Adopt and Abandon – the Parents
As I write this, the news is on fire with the story of Torry Hansen “returning” her seven-year-old adopted son to his birth country of Russia via one-way airline ticket. As the adoptive mom of a mentally ill child (albeit domestically), I’m interested in the story. But I’d rather blog today about the Westcotts. The…
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If We Knew Then What We Know Now…
Every once in a while, someone asks me if we knew Tim was going to have a mental illness, would we still have adopted him? It’s an interesting question. Maybe I’m just used to being asked all kinds of questions about my two youngest children, since Tom and I are white, our oldest biological child…