Understanding Adoption: Voices From All Sides

Join us to discuss how adoption looks and feels from all sides of the adoption triad. Our guests will be the authors Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and Lori Holden of their new book, Adoption Unfiltered.

In this episode, we cover:

Adoptee Perspective:
23 adoptees contributed to this section of the book.
What are some of the issues adoptees may face?
Compliance and people-pleasing
Fantasy Attachments
Shame
Interracial Adoptees
The Danger in the Rescue Narrative
Role of religionin adoption for adoptees, birth mothers/expectant mothers, and adoptive parents

Birth Mother:
Before birth mothers get the chance to ask for help, they ask for mercy.
Advertisements and search algorithms when searching for adoption information
Lack of neutral support
Lack of post-placement support—lingering trauma and grief—It’s a different type of grief and trauma.