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, …

India/Denmark Adoption Trafficking

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A lot went wrong in the adoptions of the 70s and 80s. At the time, adoptive children from both India, Bangladesh, and China were brought to the Netherlands without the knowledge of their parents. The children’s papers were also tampered with.  It has, therefore, become very complicated for them to find their biological family.  But what was the role and …

Children Stolen for Adoption from Guatemala

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https://adoptionland.org/9828/lets-talk-adoption-2/ Did you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans?

Girl in Return: A Teenager Reclaims her Identity and Fights the Adoption System.

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Years after being adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark, a teenager reclaims her identity and fights the adoption system.