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Lynelle Long Leads Adoptees to Help Each Other and Educate the Rest of Us
Read more: Lynelle Long Leads Adoptees to Help Each Other and Educate the Rest of UsWhen Lynelle Long wanted to connect with other international adoptees like herself as an adult, she had a hard time finding them. She decided that there should be a better way for adoptees to connect, so she built it. Now her organization, Inter Country Adoptee Voices, offers a refuge for adoptees all over the world…
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Erasing Some of the Mystery About First Mothers
Read more: Erasing Some of the Mystery About First MothersThere are a lot of opinions flying around these days about women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. With abortion allowances varying from state to state and people of different political persuasions imposing their expectations on these women, it is easy to forget who they are, if we ever knew. Often, women in this…
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Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen Sisson
Read more: Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen SissonThere is a lot of debate that centers around women who relinquish their children. We talk about who they might be and why they might be making the decisions they are, often without any insight into the reality of their experience. One of the reasons we guess is that there isn’t a lot of readily…
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Why All of Us Should Understand Adoption Better.
Read more: Why All of Us Should Understand Adoption Better.Adoption May Be More Complex Than You Think The general topic of adoption can bring a variety of things to mind, depending on who you are surrounded by.(1) If you have personal experience with adoption or foster care, you very likely have different views on it from the person whose only experience is in a…
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Moving Toward More Educated Adoption Conversations With Jean Widner
Read more: Moving Toward More Educated Adoption Conversations With Jean WidnerJean Widner’s adoptee story doesn’t start dramatically. She was raised in a stable home with adoptive parents who offered her the basic support that children need to have. As she grew and learned more about her own story and the stories of others in the adoption community, she started to understand how complex adoption can…
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When Foster Youth Aren’t Supported After They Turn 18 We All Lose.
Read more: When Foster Youth Aren’t Supported After They Turn 18 We All Lose.Young adults tend to face a lot of pressure to know themselves and their life goals well by the time they leave high school. People have probably been asking them for years what they want to do with their lives, and by graduation, they expect an answer. Often, foster youth have even more on their…
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Helping Young Adults Succeed Beyond Foster Care with Maurita McCorkle
Read more: Helping Young Adults Succeed Beyond Foster Care with Maurita McCorkleOne population of foster children that often doesn’t get the right kind of attention is those who age out of foster care. This cliff that youth often fall off of exists due to many factors. Some of the problems are due to the system they are leaving and the resources that are drying up. Some…
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We Don’t Know Enough About the Adoptee and First Parent Experience. Memoirs Can Help.
Read more: We Don’t Know Enough About the Adoptee and First Parent Experience. Memoirs Can Help.The Time Before Research It wasn’t a very long time ago when many adoptions were hidden away and not spoken of in polite company. Some young women still tell us stories of when their families sent them away to have a baby, then the baby was taken from them with little fanfare and given to…
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What Adoption Memoirs Can Teach us: A Talk With Marianne Novy
Read more: What Adoption Memoirs Can Teach us: A Talk With Marianne NovyMarianne Novy was an adoptee who was encouraged to hide that fact and obliged the people around her by keeping quiet about it until she became a college student. Over time she chose to seek out members of her birth family and develop some relationships with some of them. When she became a college professor…
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Why Do Adoptees Search for First Family?
Read more: Why Do Adoptees Search for First Family?One thing that makes adoptees unique is their connection to more than one family at a young age. (1) In the past many times, adoptive families and sometimes first families made an effort to keep this reality quiet. (2) We know better now. There are many studies and the witness of both adoptees and first…
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