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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/bodies-sons-complicated-moroccan-parental-connection/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/lisa-di-carlo/">Lisa DiCarlo</a></p>
<p>I adopted two Moroccan boys, now two and five years old. In the month-long gap between Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day, I think about my two sons’ biological parents and how we share a bond that will forever remain. And one that they will never know. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/bodies-sons-complicated-moroccan-parental-connection/#more-4344" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Our Bodies, Our Sons: A Complicated Moroccan Parental Connection

Dr. Lisa Di Carlo is an anthropologist of the MENA region and a lecturer at Brown University. She is a Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project.