TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD MOM ADOPTS SEVENTEEN YEAR-OLD

Cris Beam became a mother at 28 years old.

At the time, her daughter was 17 years old.

Cris writes an excellent article in The New York Times, discussing her experience in becoming an adoptive parent to a teenager. She equates parenting a teenager to, "driving a race car on a slick track with no brakes" and recognizes that, "you just have to hold on through the curves."

Click here to read Beam's article.

Photo courtesy of The New York Times