Sentences with phrase «feeling as an adoptee»

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As both an adoptee and an adoptive mom, I have many feelings that come up around this stuff.

For the younger adoptee, it is easy to internalize the anguish of knowing that two mothers (or two sets of parents) have a claim on you and to feel some emotional tug - of - war as a result, but this is common among children of divorce as well, and nobody would force a child to live with one parent while denying the existence of the other.

I feel this holds true for adoptees as well.

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.

By Meika Rouda As an adoptee, I never felt like an outcast until I started attending adoption conferences.

Also, as an adoptee, I feel that the family that raised me, my adoptive family, is my «real» family.

As an adoptee I feel like I fit in both my birth and adoptive families.

As an adoptee, it was both really cool and also really hard sometimes and then you add in the feelings of others really important to you that may not have wanted or approve of the reunion that makes it harder.

Lori, that was one of the reasons that I wanted an open adoption too... to not go through as an adoptive mom my child's reunion with their birth family, because my reunion with my birth family as an adoptee overwhelmed me and in the beginning I wasn't focused on my mom's feelings and how it was affecting her and I was really focused on my birth family for awhile after the reunion.

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.