I had to relinquish parental rights, then adopt my child, to stay in the Air Force Academy. The rules must change.

My cadet boyfriend, now husband, Anthony Hemphill, and I never intended to start a family at the Air Force Academy. Anthony had played a central role in helping me to overcome previous sexual trauma. He fostered a relationship of safety and respected my boundaries of reclaimed abstinence. We developed deep emotional intimacy before, unsurprisingly, it evolved to physical intimacy.