Our favorite links from around the web featuring stories of stepparenting, adoption, foster care, surrogacy, and non-traditional families.
Coronavirus upends years of planning for international adoptions and surrogacy births.
Adiba Nelson : ‘Rona needs to stay away. Too many people need me.
How adoption gave golfer Michael Thompson and his family life and love during the lockdown.


Jessica Butler
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.