Kindness

I broke my neck in a car accident on June 26, 2010. My sister and I were driving home from a Keith Urban concert in …

My name is Natasha Saddleback. I’m 34, an Indigenous woman from Samson Cree Nation, a mother of five, a 4th-year business student, an entrepreneur, soon-to-be …

Chase was the name I had always dreamed of giving my son. At nineteen, I wasn’t ready for fatherhood, but the longing to be a …

When you bring a child into the world, you think a lot about that child you have a lot of wishes from them and they …

“Why shouldn’t we?” The first thought I had when my girlfriend, who is now my wife, mentioned her wish to adopt children one day. She had a powerful desire to love orphaned children as if they were her own,  so we chose to adopt a child. We had been in a relationship for nearly a year, perched beneath a vacant lifeguard tower by the sea at night, discussing our future. At twentyone, my thoughts were straightforward: if there were kids in need of parents, and if I aspired to be a dad in the future, why not consider adoption? Of course, years later I would come to understand that adoption and fostering carry challenges and difficulties that deserve …