Conceived In Rape And Adopted

Erika Kapustinski grew up knowing that she was adopted, but it wasn’t until high school that she really began asking questions about her birth mother. That curiosity would eventually lead to the discovery that she had been conceived in rape and that her mother, just a young teen at the time, had chosen life for her against the odds.

“Thank you for loving me enough to choose adoption for me. I love you.”

Reaching out to her birth mom

After reading letters from her birth mother that her adoptive parents had saved