Evelyne McNamara
Biography
Evelyne McNamara lives in Northern California and is the mother of nine children, including Mimi, Cai and Grace, adopted from China, and Ryan and Jack, adopted from Vietnam.
Articles
Accepting Adoption
My husband and I have had 4 biological children. Our youngest daughter died of a brain tumor in February of 1993 when she was 4 years old. Our other 3 children are now 19, 17 and 14. In June of... [more]
A Children's Day Gift
On June 1st of this year, in the Monterey Heights area of San Francisco, something extraordinary happened. At the invitation of Wang Yunxiang, the Chinese Consul General, and his wife, 60 former... [more]
When Your New Child is Sick
I am writing this from the perspective of having received a seriously ill child in one of our adoptions. Alone in Vietnam, with the additional care of a second baby, the stress of trying to diagnose... [more]
