Not exact matches
As an
adoptee I've had a lot of issues with belonging, like, «
Who am I?
Madeleine Melcher is an
adoptee who spent a brief time in foster care before finding her forever home
as a toddler.
I started out
as an adoption and infertility blogger but along the way I also began listening to birth parent and
adoptee bloggers,
who revealed to me a completely different take on something I knew from only one angle.
Also Known
As (AKA)- At the heart of Also - Known -
As, Inc., are adult
adoptees and friends
who create innovative post-adoption services, educational programs, and community building activities, serving those on their adoption life journey.
Grade school kids are led by a team of adult
adoptees who bring with them years of experience in the adoption community
as well
as experience leading youth groups.
Feelings of loss, grief, rejection and shame
as well
as identity issues, intimacy problems and problems with the evolution of self - control are all identified
as life - long issues for
adoptees, natural parents and even for the people
who adopt in Deborah N. Silverstein and Sharon Kaplan's «Lifelong Issues in Adoption» available on the internet.
As the
adoptee, it just seems like to me that the distorted perceptions and narrow mindedness about open verses closed adoptions come from selfish individuals
who are more concerned about full - filling their own personal needs than that of a child.
It is refreshing to hear from someone
who had wonderful experiences both
as an adoptive parent and an
adoptee.
Also Known
As (AKA)-- At the heart of Also - Known -
As, Inc., are adult
adoptees and friends
who create innovative post-adoption services, educational programs, and community building activities, serving those on their adoption life journey.
There are also private search companies and investigators
who charge fees to do a search for or assist
adoptees and birth mothers and fathers locate each other,
as well
as to help other types of people searching.
That is what I will share
as an
adoptee and
as someone
who has worked with
adoptees for 11 years.
We are able to tell prospective
adoptees exactly what kind of personality the animal has, and
who they would do best with
as a forever home.
This webinar is useful for
adoptees and adoptive families considering or starting a post adoption search — especially those considering DNA testing —
as well
as adoption professionals
who serve post adoption clients.
This section is designed to address the concerns of both
adoptees who are searching for birth parents or other birth relatives,
as well
as birth parents (both mothers and fathers)
who want to locate a child
who was adopted.
Marikathryn has a lifetime of adoption experience
as an
adoptee through closed adoption and
as a birthmother
who placed a child through open adoption in 1993.
But using the therapy relationship
as a secure base from which to explore, clearing away the clutter and loosening a few knots, we often find that out history has prevented us from being
who we really are.I especially enjoy working with adult
adoptees, and others with early attachment issues.
Our U.S. Congress thinks it's fine to deport
adoptees, those brought to the U.S. before 2000
as children, whose governments approved their new families, and
who needed their adoptive parents to get them citizenship.
As an
adoptee and a nurse working with neonates in an ICU (
who occasionally have life long challenges), it warned my heart to watch this video.