I was struck reading the comment quoted below. This person, who goes by StraightGrandmother, is fine with donor-conceived offspring never having access to their “donor’s” identity even when that ignorance might injure them. Values like hers are common in adoption practice too. I can still find adopters writing in public forums that they chose international […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Knowing what you know now, what would you say to your six year old transracially adopted self? At twelve? At eighteen, etc?
Currently, it seems a good idea to branch an aspect of the current ongoing discussion of adoptive origins to another (this) post, but it should distinctly continue to be cross-pollinated with this post and this post and their comments. I’ve maintained: agonizing as it may sometimes turn out to be, our opportunity as adoptees to […]
This is the presentation that I gave to the British Adoption and Fostering Agency yesterday Hello my name is Lucy; I was one of the 106 Hong Kong Chinese foundlings that came over to the UK during the late 50s and into the 60s as part of the Hong Kong Project. A white family adopted […]
Maybe the better word is fabrication and history because history has a natural dose of fantasy. Every history involves the imagination. History includes specific information that is often at question for adoptees. Reports from social workers or agencies may be accurate or not, truthful or not. Place of birth, stories about parents may or may […]
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Lately I’ve been going on lots about the different kinds of stories I’ve entertained about the “truth” of my adoption. As adoptees, I suspect it is particularly common, perhaps even inevitable, to on the one hand adopt a skeptical attitude about what stories we are told and/or to project the stories we’d “prefer” (even if […]
I put “relinquished” because not everyone was…some were stolen, others abandoned, some lost? I ask because there are many reasons, many causes for our path leading to adoption. My own cause for becoming vulnerable to adoption lay in new circumstances and old roots. There was something stemming from modern circumstances and things arising from ancient […]
In another item we were discussing adoptees as a “new species” and this got me thinking about the previous item concerning obtaining citizenship for adoptees. Over at AAAC there is a minor discussion about passports, and the inability of domestic adoptees to obtain federal recognition as citizens based on the practice on the state level […]
I find that being a transracial adopted person, with international roots, has not hurt thinking in a ways beyond local norms. My adoptive parents were Episcopal Christians and I remain an Episcopal Christian (in fact am an Episcopal priest), but they were a little upset that I was reading what I was and asking about […]
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