Can you imagine a middle school teacher telling a class that the children of adoptive parents can’t be loved as much as children of “natural” parents?
There was a gasp in the room as NBC journalist Cynthia McFadden recounted her story in front of more than 600 people at the Holiday Inn by the Bay who had gathered Tuesday for the first Olympia Snowe’s Women’s Leadership Institute luncheon.
McFadden, a graduate of Edward Little High School in Auburn and Bowdoin College, was the keynote speaker at the event, a kickoff for the institute founded last year by the former U.S. senator to increase confidence and leadership skills among Maine girls.