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This Wisconsin summer camp reunites foster kids with their biological siblings

15 September 2025 at 10:00

For one week at Belong Wisconsin’s summer camp, foster children experience what it is like to be close to their biological sibling. And as funding becomes uncertain, all involved with the camp are determined to keep it going.

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Some Wisconsin adoptees can’t legally access their original birth certificate. A new bill would change that

11 September 2025 at 22:05

Advocate and adoptee Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos shared the emotional and legal obstacles that some adoptees face without access to their original birth certificate.

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Women carry a household’s mental load. Now, a Wisconsin researcher has receipts.

10 September 2025 at 22:34

UW-Madison sociologist Allison Daminger's new book tracks what she calls “cognitive labor” and the gender imbalances she found interviewing more than 80 couples.

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Milwaukee mom’s grief leads her to meeting the man who killed her son

26 August 2025 at 19:00

Debra Gillispie’s grief journey took her from outrage and a mission to shut down a bar, to driving across the country and back, to 20 years of leading local advocacy and reform efforts, and ultimately, to the prison that’s holding the man who killed her son.

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