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The Cruel Selfishness of Some Adopters
After Seven Years, Dutch Diplomat Couple Returns their Adopted Korean Daughter Raymond Poeteray, vice consul at the Dutch Consulate General in Hong Kong, and his wife, Meta, adopted baby “Jade” from...
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A Crow in Flight
I have been writing on this blog since 2006 and I don't feel any different than I did when I began writing it. By that I mean nothing has changed. By that I mean it's true: The trauma is life-long, and...
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Disappearing Adoptee: Rabbit in the Grass
That's what I'm best at: disappearing and being invisible. And because of this (which I do instinctively, like a rabbit in the grass) and because people don't misunderstand me and my behavior, I have a...
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“O” Stands for Ownership
There is nothing new about wealthy entitlement in America, and how it has been breaking up families for going on 200 years. A slave is a chattel, a person owned by another person who benefits...
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Adoptee Emancipation is Long Overdue
I'm not saying that all biological parents are capable of raising their children. I'm also not saying that adopters can't be loving, wonderful people. I'm saying that as long as the secrecy and the...
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Invisible
When my mother was forced by economic hardship to relinquish me at three days old, she could not know that she also relinquished my core self, my sense of connectedness to anyone including myself....
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The Plaid Chameleon
As an adoptee, I've had to become a plaid (or striped, or paisley, or polka dotted) chameleon in every situation where I interact with other people. School, interviews, parties, gatherings, meetings,...
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Somewhere, Not From Here
Tagged: adoptee, adoptees, alienation, Identity Issues, loneliness
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