Carol Schaefer's memoir, The Other Mother, now considered a classic in adoption literature, was adapted as a television movie by NBC in 1995, and then acquired by the Lifetime Channel. She has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, and many local television and radio programs around the United States and in Canada. She has often been a keynote speaker and given numerous workshops at adoption conferences since 1991. Searching ... is her fifth book.