by Dawn Smith-PlinerCan you imagine waving good bye to your son as he gets on the school bus for his first day of school and never seeing him again?  A parent's worst  fear--losing a child.  Well, that is what happened to  Encarnacion Bail Romero, an illegal ...

  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 ...

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by Dawn Smith-Pliner Awestruck by the birth of her first grandbaby, one grandmother was shocked when she realized her tears were not those of joy, but of sadness.  Realizing her grandbaby looked nothing like her brought back all of the struggles of her own infertility. Like lightening ...

By Carolyn N. Berger, LCSW The first thing you notice when looking through the literature on birthfathers is how little there actually is.  When we think about the “adoption triangle,” those people who play pivotal roles in an adoption, we are generally talking about the child, ...