A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow

When my husband Rob and I became foster parents, and later adopted three sisters, we never expected we would think of their birth father, Kelvin Membreño, as the third parent in our family.

The Handbasket

My adopted daughters' biological dad is in prison. I take them to visit him and am surprised by how much we've all connected.

I adopted three daughters in 2022 after many years of fostering them. Their biological father — we call him Papa — is incarcerated for an armed robbery he committed while in the throes of addiction. He's been in prison since before his youngest girl was born.

 

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Swan Song

We Lacantors were as endangered as the Latin language we’d taken our name from; Laca for lake and cantor for singer. Unless we recruited another, we would lack quorum for our solstice ceremony and the extinction of our kind would follow.

 Tree and Stone

The Littlest Hermana

On a searing July day in 2018, I picked up my former foster daughters. In the year since they had been reunified with their birth family, my husband and I frequently visited them or helped with childcare.

 The Sunlight Press

I Love My Children Enough to Wish I Had Never Met Them

 "Never forget that another family has to fall irreparably apart for your family to come together."

 Boston Globe