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How Adoptive Parents Can Support Adoptees with Language

How does language impact adoptees? Adult adoptees reveal the lasting effects of harmful, language and how adoptive parents can foster healing.

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Best Christmas Present (All Sales Final)

We hear about “adopted” Christmas puppies being returned to shelters when they lose their festive novelty. What happens when the novelty of a human child “gift” wears off?

Mental Health Preparedness: My experience with mental illness growing up adopted

I discovered these quotes on a fact sheet I found among my 1978-79 adoption documents after my parents’ deaths.

Most non-adopted people oversimplify and invalidate the grief of adoptees because they assume that our families are just like other families.

Adoptee Land by Kristen, Adoptee Contributor

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It’s such a curious thing how being relinquished is never talked about with sorrow; but instead with applaud for the adoptive parents.

Adoption, Shame & Cocktail Parties by Amy, Adoptee Contributor

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I played the role of being a chameleon; not realizing the toxicity of what I was doing in allowing people to mislabel me.

Latina Mislabeled by Martha, Adoptee Contributor

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Featured Story

How Adoptive Parents Can Support Adoptees with Language

Best Christmas Present (All Sales Final)

Mental Health Preparedness: My experience with mental illness growing up adopted

Most non-adopted people oversimplify and invalidate the grief of adoptees because they assume that our families are just like other families.

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