by Iris Waichler, MSW, LCSW  I was 42 years old when I started my infertility journey. My only treatment option was an egg donor.  My husband asked if it would be hard emotionally bonding with the baby we desperately hoped would come.  I had talked to others who expressed doubts ...

by Kevin Hoffman Below is a letter I recently wrote to my birth mother and below that is what I learned from writing it. ************** Dear Helen, I call you Helen because calling you mom just doesn’t feel right. On October 24, 2009, I found after 21 years of searching and then I lost ...

New York is my city.  It's easier for me to strut than to walk down the streets of Manhattan, it's impossible not to feel beautiful, looking at the lights of the Empire State, feeling the air, people watching, I just love it and nothing compares.  Nothing.  And last night The AFA ...

by Lisa Marsh, The AFA's London Correspondent No.3 in a series: Single fathers raising, caring for and talking to pre-teen daughters about her body As your daughter approaches puberty, changes are bubbling and brewing under her skin, waiting for a chance to erupt: pimples and breasts. ...