Dr. Paul M Fleiss says…

“Many adopted parents feel that if they just love their adopted baby enough it will heal all their wounds. Parents need to be aware of the full range of issues they will face in raising an adopted child so they can recognize and deal with the inherent feelings of rejection and abandonment that occur when a child is raised by someone other than their biological parents. Mother me is an honest portrayal of these and other issues.”

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Nimmy March says…

“As an adoptee and mother of three ourselves, Zara H Phillips and her book Mother Me has touched parts that no other could even know existed. Hurrah for Zara H Phillips!  She has compassionately expressed, with at times alarmingly forthright clarity so much that is hard to articulate about the adoption experience.” Continue reading

Nicole Burton says…

” No one else has covered the terrain that Zara Phillips’ memoir, MOTHER ME, explores; that is, how closed adoption affects adopted adults when we become parents. You’d never believe that adoption would an inter-generational condition but it turns out it is. Continue reading

Judy Miller says…

“Society needs to recognise children who have been adopted, or who have been in and out of foster care, and acknowledge that they may experience grief and problems and sadness.” –Zara Phillips, in the introduction of her memoir, Mother Me

In Mother Me author Zara Phillips shares that she always knew she had been adopted. However, adoption was not discussed within her family. While Phillips was close to her mom and grandmother, her father kept her at a distance and she felt “out of place.” Continue reading

Kate Hilpern Says…

“As an adoptee that recently gave birth. I have been struck by how much adoption has re entered by psyche. Phillips explores this issue in Mother me with a rare and profound insight and contextualizes it around her own fascinating story. Its an important topic and high time that someone explored it.”

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