by Carolyn Berger, LCSW On August 23rd Rufus Wainwright will be marrying his partner of five years, Jorn Weisbrodt, out in Montauk, Long Island. I’ve always liked Rufus Wainwright’s music, but only became interested in his family building story after I saw him in concert in ...

  Dawn Smith-Pliner Talks to Carolyn Berger   Carolyn:  Can you give me a definition of “open adoption”?  It seems to mean different things to different people.   Dawn:  Open adoption is an adoption in which there is a relationship between the ...

By Carolyn Berger, LCSW  When my biological son, Zach, was born I remember looking at him and thinking how he didn’t look anything like I’d imagined.  With his dark wavy hair and olive skin he looked very different from the pink baby with just a touch of blond hair that I ...