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Modern Love

DJ's Homeless Mommy | With Dan Savage

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.48.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Dan Savage reads his own Modern Love essay about his son's birth mother--and her troubling path.

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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is modern love.

0:36.2

Stories of love, loss, and redemption.

0:40.2

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

0:44.2

Nationalist-indicated sex columnist and podcaster Dan Savage is well known for giving advice

0:54.6

on any and all relationship issues.

0:57.9

But in his modern love essay, he asked the complicated questions.

1:03.0

This week, Dan Savage reads his own essay, DJ's Homeless Mommy.

1:08.6

There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster than doing

1:12.5

a closed or foreign adoption.

1:14.5

In fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait.

1:20.8

This point was driven home when both birth mothers who spoke at the two-day open adoption

1:24.7

seminar we were required to attend said that finding good Christian homes for their babies

1:30.8

was their first concern.

1:32.6

But we decided to go ahead and try to do an open adoption anyway.

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