Articles by Amy Shankland

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Now I had a few potential names for my birth mother and dozens for my birth father. But I still didn’t feel like my yearbook…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect With my non-identifying info regarding my adoption in hand, I had some solid things to go on for a more advanced search for my biological…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Mary didn’t bug me often after that conversation about what I should do regarding the search for my biological parents because she knew about my…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect After finding out the non-identifying info about my biological parents, life went on. By the time the fall of 2009 rolled around, I had been…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thanks to Laura with St. Joseph County, I learned that both of my biological parents were 20 years old and in good physical health when…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thanks to a fantastic babysitting co-op through our church, John and I were able to go out on a date with each other twice a…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Since it took so long to get pregnant the first time, I was eager to try again that following summer when Jonathon was only seven…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Turns out, John and I did not need to consider adoption after all. God had other plans. A month after attending the pre-adoption class, I…

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect I only brought up my biological parents to my mother one more time, and this was right after I graduated college. For some reason, she…