closed adoption How to Avoid Being Gobsmacked by your 18 Year-Old Adoptee How can it happen that an adoptive parent doesn’t see it coming, their child connecting with birth parents? It’s no fun to be gobsmacked! Read More » 2 Comments
adoptlit “I Want My Real Mom!” — says Sara Easterly Sara Easterly warns that silencing an adoptee due to the parent’s wounds can make the adoptee secretive and disconnected. Even from herself. Read More » 6 Comments
closed adoption It’s the 2020s. Why Do We Still Suck at Adoption Telling? Four decades into open adoption and we still struggle with adoption telling. How and why we must make truth & disclosure The Way. Read More » 35 Comments