5 Things Not to Say to Grieving Parents – Most of us know someone who has lost a child, but we don’t always know what to say. Here is a starter list of 5 things to avoid saying to a parent whose chil…

The ICWA: 35 Years in and We Must Still Fight for Our Children

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Stop putting adoptive parents in jeopardy of losing a child they want desperately. Stop ripping children from the arms …. There was a time when Colleen Cardinal could not talk about her family without choking on her grief. "It took me a long time to …
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'This is the Story of a Happy Marriage' by Ann Patchett

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The 22 pieces gathered here (written from 1996 to 2012) are loosely constructed as an arc from the moment she realized that she would become a writer through the failures and losses — and successes — that have brought her to the fullness of maturity …
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