These ten artists represent many different kinds of adoption–domestic, closed, familial– and here is a brief snapshot of their stories.

Faith Hill

Hill is a country superstar with seven hit albums. She was placed for adoption at birth and adopted by Ted and Edna Perry. She has talked in interviews about how, even though she had a great childhood and loving parents, she always wanted to find her birth family. She located them in the mid-1990’s, and shares a close relationship with both her adoptive and birth families.

Tim McGraw

McGraw, who is married to Faith Hill, is a country superstar in his own right. He was adopted by his stepfather Horace Smith when Smith married McGraw’s mother. McGraw, who was seven months old at the time of the marriage, grew up thinking that his stepfather was his biological father. He discovered the truth when he found his birth certificate after his parents’ divorce. McGraw’s mother confessed that he was the biological son of the famous baseball pitcher Tug McGraw. The two met when Tim was 11, but didn’t develop a relationship until he was 18. They remained close until Tug died in 2004.

Sarah McLachlan

McLachlan has recorded nine studio albums in her career. She was placed for adoption by her 19-year-old birth mother, and adopted into a loving family. McLachlan was told she was adopted around the age of nine, but says it never made that much of a difference. She was grateful for the family that she was raised in, although McLachlan did eventually meet her birth mother, who is an artist. She has said she has a great respect for her birth mother for placing her for adoption.

Eric Clapton

Clapton is a popular singer and guitar player who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times. He was born to a 16-year-old mother. She struggled to raise him, so his grandparents became Clapton’s surrogate parents. He grew up believing that his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister. His grandparents never legally adopted him, but did serve as his legal guardians until Clapton turned 18. 

Debbie Harry

Harry is the lead singer of the band Blondie, known for its number one hits, “Rapture” and “Call Me,” among others. She was born in Florida in 1945, adopted three months later by Richard and Catherine Harry, and raised in New Jersey. She was told she was adopted when she was around four years old. When she was an adult, she tried to track down her birth parents but was unsuccessful.

JC Chasez

Chasez was one-fifth of the boy band NSYNC, which was hugely popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Chasez was born in Maryland in 1976. When he was five years old, his mother decided she couldn’t raise him, and gave him to the foster parents who had raised her. They took JC in, legally adopted him, and raised him.

Kristin Chenoweth

Chenoweth is a Broadway star best known for playing the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked. She was adopted in Oklahoma when she was five days old. She always knew that she was adopted. She has expressed feeling a deep sense of contentment with her adoptive family, and hasn’t spoken much about any efforts to find her birth family. Instead, she speaks of how her parents would tell her when she was little that they chose her for their family, and how satisfied that made her feel.

Jamie Foxx

Foxx is a singer and actor with four albums to his name and an Academy Award for playing legendary singer Ray Charles. Foxx was born to young parents who struggled to raise him. He was adopted at seven months by his maternal grandparents and had little contact with his birth parents after that. He has made efforts to reconnect to his birth family in recent years, and has been more successful in forging a relationship with his birth mother than his birth father.

John Lennon

Lennon is an iconic singer and one-fourth of the Beatles, one of the most popular bands in history. When Lennon was three years old, his parents separated and he rarely saw his father after the split. His mother struggled to raise Lennon for two more years before she gave him to her sister and brother-in-law to raise, which they did for the rest of his childhood. He saw his mother throughout his childhood, but didn’t see his father between the ages of 5 and 20.

Liz Phair

Phair is a rock musician who has put out six records. She was born in Connecticut and adopted as an infant by Nancy and John Phair, and raised in Illinois. She has always known that she was adopted, but never sought to find her birth family.

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The internet is full of blogs about adoption. It can be challenging to wade through them to find the best of the best. We’ve done it for you. Here is a list of twelve of the top adoption blogs on the web today. These best blogs on adoption share stories of domestic adoption, international adoption, and adoption from foster care, and all beautifully share their unique stories.

Best Blogs On Adoption

Confessions of an Adoptive Parent

With their blog, Mike and Kristin Berry have set out to create a space to share the trials and joys of raising their adopted brood of eight children. They also foster several more. Because they’ve been parenting their children for fourteen years, there is a distinct depth to their knowledge. They also include a unique section on their blog about preserving their marriage in the chaos of raising kids.

White Sugar, Brown Sugar

Rachel Garlinghouse and her husband have three children, all adopted domestically and all transracial. Her more recent posts have focused on educating people about the world of adoption, from addressing nosy questions to interviewing others who have adopted children. She has written six books, all centered on the theme of adoption.

Ken & Jan Cook

Ken and Jan Cook have adopted three children (two from Ethiopia and one from China) and are in the process of adopting another child from China. Although they didn’t blog much in 2016 or the early part of 2017, they are back at it now. Their past posts are a beautiful picture of what adoption is like and how adoptive parents don’t just work hard to get their kids, but to get to know them, too.

Ni Hao Y’All

Stefanie Hanen is a mom of 14 (yes, you read that right), four by birth and ten by adoption from China. All ten of her adopted children have different medical needs, and Stefanie writes about their adoption journeys and life together as a large family. Her photographs are stunning and bring their story to life. Stefanie is also a contributor at No Hands But Ours, a website written by a number of different people who share their stories and experiences with special needs adoption.

Full Plate Mom

The “mom” of Full Plate Mom has eleven children who have come to her and her husband through adoption–domestic, Ghana, China, and soon she’ll add Columbia to that list. She writes regularly about what it’s like to raise their kids as they add more to their brood. She has a well-detailed list of categories for all of her posts so an adoptive parent can easily locate her thoughts on just about every subject related to adoption. Bonus points if you can figure out her real name!

Ordinary Miracles and the Crazy 10

Nancy and her husband (Crazy Me and Papa) have eight children, four biological and four adopted. All four of her adopted children come from Asia, specifically Vietnam and China. Nancy writes beautifully about what life with a large family is like, and her stunning pictures give you a window into her family’s life.

My Real Kid

Allie Ferguson writes about the journey she and her husband took to adopt their son Miles in a domestic adoption. She focuses her blog on being a transracial family, and what it’s like for white parents to be raising an African-American child.

See Jamie Blog

Jamie writes openly and honestly about her life raising five children, two who were born to her and three who were adopted from foster care. She talks about homeschooling, being a grandparent, and staying physically fit as a way to relieve her stress and care for herself while caring for her family.

Adoptive Black Mom

This blog is written by a professional African-American woman who decided to adopt on her own when she was 39 years old. She is mom to a daughter named Hope, and focuses most of her writing on her perspective of being black, raising an adopted child on her own, and taking pride in her heritage.

Heart Cries

Rebekah and her husband have adopted five children, one through private domestic adoption and four adoptions through foster care. Three of their boys are the same age. Rebekah writes in a raw and honest way about the difficulties of raising children who come from trauma and the joys her children give her.

Shelley Writes

Shelley is a former news reporter who is now a full-time mom to four children ages four and under. She and her husband adopted two girls, and then Shelley gave birth to a girl and a boy. She writes about her journey to parenthood and how fulfilling it is to be blessed with four children in such a short period of time after struggling with infertility.

Lauren Casper

Casper uses her blog to share her story of adopting her children from Ethiopia in 2011 and 2013. As her children settled into their family, Casper began blogging about their family life and raising their kids. She has written a book and is working on her second.

What best blogs on adoption did we miss? Share your favorite adoption blog in the comments!

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