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Native American Adoptees Can Help Their Tribes Continue to Exist, but Only if They Know Who They Are.
Read more: Native American Adoptees Can Help Their Tribes Continue to Exist, but Only if They Know Who They Are.Most of the time adoption is viewed as a rescue in a sense. A child in need of a home is given one with a family who will raise that child as their own. That simple story often doesn’t resemble the reality of what adoption can mean for a child or that child’s first mother.…
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Trace Lara Hentz Talks About the Importance of “The Count 2024” to Native American Adoptees Everywhere.
Read more: Trace Lara Hentz Talks About the Importance of “The Count 2024” to Native American Adoptees Everywhere.Most of us have heard bits and pieces about how poorly America has treated the Native Tribes that have lived on this land. We may not understand fully how adoption was weaponized against tribes to raise children who were brought up without a memory of their heritage and culture. As journalist Trace Lara Hentz began…
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What Does Searching for Birth Family Mean for an Adoptee and How Should They Get Started?
Read more: What Does Searching for Birth Family Mean for an Adoptee and How Should They Get Started?Adoptees have about as broad a range of experiences growing up as any group of people. (1)Their feelings can range from deep family love to harsh abuse trauma and land everywhere in between. One thing adoptees have in common is that somewhere out there is another family they have some sort of connection to. (2)…
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Writing as a Person Touched by Adoption
Read more: Writing as a Person Touched by AdoptionHow can each part of the triad use writing to benefit themselves and the community as a whole? Putting words on paper, or typing a font onto an electronic document can be a therapeutic exercise for anyone. (1) When adoption is a part of your life it can take on a whole new meaning for…
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The Dark Past and Questionable Future of Pre-Birth Matching in Adoption.
Read more: The Dark Past and Questionable Future of Pre-Birth Matching in Adoption.Connecting a frazzled pregnant woman’s future baby with a calm married couple is almost cliche in our culture. We gaze on such a scene with the warm glow of wholesome goodness. At the core of this practice is a dark history that most of us don’t know about. If we did know, we may pause…
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In America, But Not At Home.
Read more: In America, But Not At Home.A Discussion With Patricia Knight Meyer about her adoption story and how she processed her trauma through writing. Patricia Knight Meyer’s story seems foreign compared to the happy renditions of adoptive families brought together for happy holiday photos. She was adopted quietly, without proper paperwork. This left her in a state of limbo for a…
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Should We Rethink How We Care For First Mothers? a talk with Carlynne Hershberger
Read more: Should We Rethink How We Care For First Mothers? a talk with Carlynne HershbergerWhen Carlynne Hershberger found out she was pregnant at 19 she could never have known then how that experience would shape the rest of her life. Many women don’t. In Carlynne’s case she became a victim of the baby scoop era when young pregnant women were hidden away and their babies were taken from them…
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Embryo Adoption Creates a New Form of Adoptee with the Same Old Problems.
Read more: Embryo Adoption Creates a New Form of Adoptee with the Same Old Problems.New Kinds of Family Bonds Embryo adoption is already bending the way we see family and siblings. There are stories hitting papers about families forming a special bond because their children are all biological siblings even though their parents are unrelated. (1) A generous donor offered the embryos they chose not to use after IVF…
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Embryos Enter the Already Complex World of Adoption.
Read more: Embryos Enter the Already Complex World of Adoption.Adoption is Already Complicated Superficially, adoption seems straightforward. A child needs a home so one is provided. Most people who have had any experience with adoption in real life know otherwise. Three longstanding methods of transferring a child from one family to another are the most common. Each of these have traumatic backstories that years…
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