By TAO
I am acknowledging I have no direct experience in what I am saying below. My experience is different, but I do believe there are parallels between the two experiences. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adoptee, adoption, adoption impact, adoptive family, biological family, birthfather, birthmother, considering adoption, expectations, fathers, loss, mothers
By TAO
I am still working on reading all the discussions that have been started since “The Child Catchers” by Kathryn Joyce was published. Really enjoying seeing both the responses and the pennies dropping. It’s good – but I knew this comment was coming because it comes up on every discussion on ethics and adoption. Paraphrased to spare the person who left the comment about why discussing it was bad, and you should only speak to a specific case or agency on a post talking about ethics and corruption in international adoption. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adoptee, Adoptee Rights, adoptees, adoption, adoption impact, adoptive family, biological family, closed records, communication, considering adoption, Ethics and morals, truth
By TAO
I know – two posts in one day. I over-did it yesterday and have done my best not to go lay-down and sleep because that will mess up my sleep tonight. This morning I followed a link from twitter and ended up reading the first link. I don’t know who provided the link, but reading it made me incredibly sad – not just the lies, but the mis-information that made it so much harder for Michael. It’s from 1999 and long to be published in the NY Times – about the era when I was adopted. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Abuse, adoptee, Adoptee Rights, adoptees, adoption, adoption impact, Adoption law, adoptive family, biological family, denial, Ethics and morals, family medical history, loss, Louise Wise Services, truth
By TAO
Apparently why international adoption is such a mess and broken is because of:
Nothing to do with cases of corruption, or fraud in-country, or overloading an already fragile social system by adoption agencies rushing into a developing country… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adoptee, adoption, adoption impact, Adoption law, adoptive family, biological family, closed records, Ethics and morals, loss
By TAO
I am always amazed at bursts of awareness about adoption, for some reason my assumption was that I had already been there, done that, and all I ever needed to know, or feel about adoption had already been dealt with…
Tags: adoptee, adoption, adoption impact, adoptive family, biological family, expectations, loss
By TAO
Sigh, I’m still waiting for my copy of The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce because I support an independent bookseller. Hopefully, I get the call that it is in today… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Abuse, adoptee, adoptees, adoption, adoption impact, adoptive family, biological family, communication, considering adoption, Ethics and morals, loss, truth
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