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Behind Child Protection: A Conversation with District Child Protection Officer Leena Kallammanavar

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The Complex Story Behind R. Marin’s Family

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Neither Adopted Nor Free: How Italian Law Impacted Author R. Marin

R. Marin is the pen name of a self-published author whose first novel, Despite it All, I Made It Through, traces his life from birth to age eighteen. His childhood was shaped by an absent biological mother, a devoted foster mother, and a legal status that never quite matched the family he actually lived in.…
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“Despite It All, I Made It Through”: Author R. Marin on Writing His Way Through His Own Adoption Story

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“Nobody Wants to Adopt a Black Boy”: Racism and Bias in the Adoption World

By Teesta Bhola-Shah For many families, adoption is presented as a beautiful, uncomplicated story about love. But for my own mother, Devi Bhola, the adoption process revealed something far more uncomfortable: a system deeply shaped by racism, like many things in our society. During a candid interview about our family’s experience adopting my younger brother,…
