Marjie Alonso is a former nonprofit director, animal behaviorist and trainer. She writes a weekly Substack and is working on a memoir of her search for her sons’ birth families, and the reckoning with the covenant of adoption.
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When it feels like nowhere is safe
For many women, including Marjie Alonso, Trump's election victory — and news about who he's tapped to join his cabinet — is jogging traumatic experiences, sense memories of fear. Most...
I willingly, joyfully adopted my sons from Paraguay. I would never do it again
Rumors of stolen children adopted by unsuspecting parents circulated in international adoption circles for decades. And now a recent report confirms they're true. Nearly 30 years ago, Marjie Alonso adopted...