Everything You Need to Know

Adoption is most often seen as an unconditional good, and adoptive parents are viewed as the true heroes who managed to grow love for a stranger within themselves. Everyone knows that the heroes are entitled to a happy ending—but no one mentions the difficulties of life after the dazzling joy of expanding the family. Nicole Chen, adopted as an infant, writes about what it’s like to face daily questions, confusion, and prejudice because she doesn’t resemble her relatives. Nicole writes about her experience of searching for relatives who rejected her as a baby—and how that affected her own motherhood.