Adoption Stories: Excerpts from Adoption Books for Adults

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Information is Power. Adopted people are diverse individuals with differing points of view, yet have been stigmatized into one type of people by the industry leaders. Even though we come from various backgrounds, we’ve been stereotyped as if all of us are somehow ungrateful if we don’t show enough appreciation, labeled as if having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we …

Myka Stauffer rehomes inter-country adoptee from China

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Adoption Disruption, Abandonment, Trauma… As I’m sure many of you know I’m a strong-minded individual who values the voices of adoptees and to know that a YouTube Influencer and her hubby (Myka and James Stauffer) decided to showcase their lives so the world could witness their flashy dashy ways…I’m shaking my head hard. For all the Huxley’s of the world, …

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Designer Conception

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Designer Conception w/ DC activist Zave Fors Hosted by Not Your Orphan: Today I was lucky to speak with Designer-Conceived activist Zave Fors; about the similarities and differences between Adoptee and DC identity, trauma, and legal restrictions. It is VERY important that our discussions include how child rights are affected not just through adoption and child welfare, but through reproductive …

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Donor Dad

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In the space of a few seconds, Ken Allen’s life was turned upside down, changed forever. The schoolteacher was on a lunch break when he got the startling news – he was the father of eleven children he never knew he had. Steve Pennells takes us on a highly emotional journey as Ken meets his newfound family. In the space …