A TREASURED BOND WITH A FATHER
Published June 2013 By The Cradle Staff “I remember being into ballet when I was really little,” Cradle baby Julie Kaczmarek recalls. “Dad sat everyone down in the living room to watch me give a ‘performance,’ and he was the first to clap.”Julie’s brother Andrew golfed with his Dad in the 2011 Cradle Classic. Nowadays, […]
AN OPEN ADOPTION STORY FROM A FAMILY WHO ADOPTED THROUGH THE CRADLE
An open adoption story from a family who adopted through The Cradle
MAKING THE CONNECTION
I was adopted through the Cradle in 1979 by two very loving and wonderful adoptive parents. Although my life with them was happy and full, there were always questions I had that no one could answer except my birth family. I always knew that finding my birth family would help clear up my own personal […]
A CROSS CONTINENT ADOPTION REUNION
On November 1st, 2005, I will be flying across the Atlantic to England to meet my birth sister for the very first time. At the age of 55, I decided to keep a promise that I made to myself years ago — to look for my birth mother. I felt there might still be a […]
MEET FR. WOODBURY: CRADLE BABY AND CRADLE DAD
Published January 2015 By The Cradle Staff Father Bob Woodbury knows adoption from two perspectives. A retired Episcopal priest, Fr. Woodbury was adopted through The Cradle in 1941. Thirty nine years later, he became an adoptive parent when he brought his second daughter, Joanna, home from The Cradle in December 1979. “It was December 12 […]
AN ADOPTED PERSON DISCUSSES ADOPTION AND WHAT IT’S LIKE TO GROW UP ADOPTED
An adopted person discusses adoption and what it’s like to grow up adopted
