OA&FS Real Life Stories and
Adoptee Voices.
Books below are anthologies or memoirs which feature
the adoptee voice... let me know which books I should add in the comments section!
Not exact matches
Thank you Jeremy for allowing my message concerning adoption to be posted above, the
voice of
adoptees critical of adoption practices is rarely allowed to be heard outside the
adoptee community, especially by abandoning mothers and adopting parents.
Adoptees are the only party to an adoption without a
voice.
However, rather than hearing what adult
adoptees are saying here (your daughter may feel the same way someday, our
voices may be HERS), you struck back to defend your position.
With people like Lori educating the adoptive and «will - be adoptive» parents, and more
adoptees lending their
voices of experience, we can have the most emotionally healthy group of adopted people thus far!
As the children adopted in the early days of the transracial adoption experiment have reached middle age, a growing chorus of
voices from adult transracial
adoptees has emerged.
OA&FS open
adoptee Ariel, her adoptive parents and birthparents provide a window into their various perspectives that provides a view of open adoption from all sides and
voices.
We also have a very active online community that provides education and support for adoptive and hopeful adoptive parents, with a lot of
voices of
adoptees and birthparents who share their stories.
Viewing the question this way, there are some awesome first parents and
adoptees (as well as adoptive parents) giving
voice to their own experiences with OA.
Regardless of their experience with adoption, most
adoptees agree that: «There is no
voice on our about adoption that is more important than your
adoptees.»
In addition, she is the founder and co-president of CASAFA (Capital Alliance of Student
Adoptees and Foster Alum), an organization lead by all adoptees, and created to strengthen / empower the adoptee's voice, and to advocate by ed
Adoptees and Foster Alum), an organization lead by all
adoptees, and created to strengthen / empower the adoptee's voice, and to advocate by ed
adoptees, and created to strengthen / empower the
adoptee's
voice, and to advocate by education.
Using their combined total of 55 years experience in clinical and research work with
adoptees and their families, the authors use the
voices of
adoptees themselves to trace how adoption is experienced over a lifetime.
Voices of
Adoptees Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition New York Provides a collection of articles by adopted people raised in transracial or transcultural families.
In fact, our book will have many
voices in it — adult
adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and pre-adoptive parents, especially those with interest and experience in open adoption.
With people like Lori educating the adoptive and «will - be adoptive» parents, and more
adoptees lending their
voices of experience, we can have the most emotionally healthy group of adopted people thus far!