Our favorite links from around the web featuring stories of stepparenting, adoption, foster care, surrogacy, and non-traditional families.
1 in 4 children in America lives in a single-parent home. What happens if that parent gets coronavirus?
Adoptions are being finalized electronically as courts close due to covid-19.
Coronavirus Tales: We had to put our surrogacy plans on hold.
NICU PTSD in the Time of Coronavirus.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (A.S.R.M.) issued new guidelines regarding fertility treatments in response to the covid-19 pandemic.
Surrogacy: Some new parents are stuck in US amid the covid-19 shutdown, while others unable to enter the country to meet their babies.
Jessica Butler is the co-founder of Raise, stepmother of two, and adoptive mother of one. Prior to Raise, she was a writer on USA’s "In Plain Sight" and TNT’s "The Last Ship." She and her husband, writer/producer Warren Bell, co-created the Nick at Nite series "Instant Mom," based on her life as a stepmother. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and six-year-old son, Levon.