From The Future of Children web site, this paper can be downloaded in .pdf format. The abstract says:

I’m Gretchen, a thirty-something mama married to Thomas, a man whose patience never runs dry.

Adoption issues are near and dear to me; both my husband and daughter were adopted. His is closed, hers is open -- and we’re all about the open.

An adoption.com blog written by two birth-first parents (Jan Baker and Jenna Hatfield). One hailing from the closed adoption era and one from the open adoption era, the two offer a unique, sometimes different and sometimes unified, perspective on things that pertain to first families, adoption reform and adoption in general.

A blog about the open relationship between myself and my daughter's family, a call to look at things without rose-tinted glasses and basically, how my life has been touched by adoption in many more ways than they told me it would be. Not a happy-go-lucky blog but not a doomsday blog either. Somewhere in the middle.