Sentences with phrase «experience as an adoptee»

Again, it's important to remember that the adoptee's adoption experience as an adoptee is separate than that of the child being adopted.

It is stronger to me than DNA, our shared experience as adoptees.

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.

Again, it's important to remember that the adoptee's adoption experience as an adoptee is separate than that of the child being adopted.

From my experiences as an adoptee, my suggestion would be to make it feel safe for your adopted child to ask questions and to deserve answers as a worthy human being.

Not exact matches

I wanted to talk about how much I have learned from reading the writings of adult adoptees, and how their experiences of loss and isolation inform me as a parent, and also break my heart.

As a transracial Korean adoptee, Robyn's personal participation in post-adoption services including teen groups, mentor & mentee programs, living abroad in Korea, navigating birth family search & reunion experiences, and DNA testing have all deeply influenced and informed much of her professional perspectives.

As an adoptee in the closed era of adoption, I've always listened intently when birthparents talk about their experiences via open adoption.

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.

Expat Adoptee Mommy The author of a memoir about about her adoption and reunion writes about her experiences as an ex-pat mother.

It is refreshing to hear from someone who had wonderful experiences both as an adoptive parent and an adoptee.

Playfully approaching the grand canyons of personal trauma and the emotional ruptures of global adoption politics through popping aural ellipses and jarring jump cuts, Jensen deftly handles a sensitive issue, based on her own experience as a Danish adoptee returning to South Korea to find her birth mother.

However, if you are nervous about a reunion situation happening with your adoptive child (which I don't blame you, and can be hard for the adoptee, adoptive parents and birthparents and I personally didn't want to experience that with my children as an adoptive mom either), having a closed adoption does not help prevent that from happening, having an open adoption does.

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.

Finally, adoptees were classified as experiencing contextual environmental risk using the presence of two or more adverse factors in the adoptive home (e.g., adoptive parent psychopathology) as the cutoff.