Twenty Families Rejected My Daughter Because of Her Diagnosis—Then I Signed the Adoption Papers in Under Four Minutes

about family?”

“Her maternal grandmother was contacted.”

“And?”

“She declined placement.”

That didn’t surprise me as much as it should have.

Rachel’s mother, Marlene, had been drinking for as long as I’d known her.

Sometimes she stayed sober for months.

Then something would happen, and she’d disappear into alcohol again.

Rachel had spent half her childhood continue reading …