“Many of the women in the book were preyed upon by for-profit adoption agencies or anti-abortion clinics and, in their words, coerced into giving up their children. Some would have chosen to parent if they felt they could.” #adoption #adoption history

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Her story challenges the oversimplified narratives surrounding adoption and provides a window into the varied experiences of adoptees.

“Every adoption begins with loss,” Kurovski-Legris said. #adoption #adoption isloss #adoptee #adoptee voices

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No one you know Baby Girl is tired… Kelly🏴‍☠️ bison expert Open adoption is only as open as the scooters allow it to be. There is no legal mechanism to keep an adoption open. Open adoption is closed adoption with better marketing.

Adoption falsities the child's birth certificate. It claims the child is born to an infertile couple.

Being a birth mother is a life sentence of pain. Unrelenting, never-ending pain. Society tells us that adoption is all kinds of wonderful things. #adoption #adoption istrauma #adoption isloss

Read this story from Dani Joy, mother and homesteader on Medium: medium.com/@danijoy/on-be…

In Greece, transnational adoption began as a war crime and was then normalized. This model was replicated around the world.

Still think secrecy is good, love makes a family, biology means nothing, and adoptees should just be be grateful?

Let my story teach you that transracial adoption needs to be done responsibly. Even the best parents can be blind to the damage that transracial adoption can do to a child. Do the work and adopt responsibly. #adoption #adopteevoices #transracialadoptee

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Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, in the wake of the Greek Civil War — considered the first Cold War proxy conflict — thousands of Greek children were adopted abroad, mostly by Americans, under shady circumstances. #adoption #adopteerights #stolenchildren

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Love Differently explores the importance of identity, how it could help save a life, and why a name matters. Diana shares her unique adoption story and why she believes change is in order. #adoption #adopted #adopteevoices #adopteerights #dnadiscovery

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The message you need is always right where you are - Come sit by the River of Grief.

#Adoption
#Grief
#Acknowledgement
#Grace
#challenges
#adopteevoices
#FacingTheTruth
#AbolishAdoption
#SocialJustice
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Innocent children are suffering every day. After all these years, when will state leadership get serious about fixing this disaster?

#adoption #fostercare #familycourt #adopteevoices #adopteerights #justiceforadoptees

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One of the worst offenders was Guatemala, where the government used international adoption to cover up domestic problems such as disintegrated families, mass poverty, and genocide. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #stolenchildren #childtrafficking

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Bailey Miller 🟧 Thanks for asking. The idea of “open adoptions” is best understood as a lure to persuade people to relinquish their children. It is a legally empty concept. EVERY adoption in the US involves altering an adoptee’s vital records—and hiding the originals in all but two states. +

Revealed: hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

If becoming a parent through adoption is a “miracle,” how do we talk about a parent losing a child to adoption, and a child losing their identity through adoption?

They were among many children separated from their parents during El Salvador's civil war, and put up for #adoption in the US and Europe. Now, nearly 40 years later, they and many others are searching for their birth families. #adopteevoices #trafficked

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Gaye Dalton Tony Corsentino There is not a single scenario where it's necessary to falsify a birth certificate, deny comprehensive updated medical history and legally sever all kin in order to receive safe external care.

Discovered she was one of tens of thousands of children in Georgia taken from the country’s maternity hospitals and sold in a decades-long, black market adoption scandal. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #dnadiscovery #stolenchildren

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Wrongful judgement rulings like this in family court equals to #forcedadoption cases that are NOT in the best interests of the child. #adoption #adoptees

A Kansas grandmother couldn't adopt her grandchild. The case points to larger issues in foster care kcbeacon.org/stories/2024/0…

The actor believes he hit the jackpot with his parents, but adds that there always remains “a hole in the heart” of adopted people, regardless of their story and journey. #adoption #adoptees #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adopteejourney #adultadoptees

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I'm adopted and wasn't interested in exploring my South Korean heritage. That changed in 2020.
#adoption #adoptee #adoptee voices #adoptee rights #adoptee narrative #adultadoptee #Koreanadoption #Koreanadoptees

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