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Adoption Unfiltered
Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
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2023
Summary
Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptions: adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents.
Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview dozens of adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, social workers, therapists, and other allies—all sharing candidly about the challenges in adoption. While finding common ground in the sometimes-contentious space of adoption may seem like a lofty goal, it reveals the authors’ optimistic aim: working together with truth and transparency to move toward healing.
Healing isn’t possible, though, without first uncovering the hurts—starting with adoption’s central players: adoptees, who are so often in pain, suffering from what the latest brain science validates as the long-term emotional effects of separation trauma. By encouraging others to vulnerably share their stories, the authors discover that adoptees aren’t the only ones in the adoption constellation who are hurting. Birth parents regularly shut down after being shut out by adoptive parents. Adoptive parents often struggle with unique parenting challenges and hidden insecurity, feeling the need to hide the fact that they are not the Super Parents they led the agency to believe they would be. Across the industry as a whole, misinformed and even unethical practices abound.
Adoption Unfiltered models the importance of adults in adoption working together in the spirit of curiosity and empathy—to better support adoptees and their first and adoptive families.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-7469-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-7470-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
312
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Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 1 Meet the Adoptee Contributors No access
Chapter 2 Adoptees’ Heartache and Pain No access
Chapter 3 In Pursuit of Love . . . Or, Pushing It Away No access
Chapter 4 Living Anxious and Alarmed No access
Chapter 5 Full of Frustration, Light on Feeling No access
Chapter 6 The Tentacles of Classism and Racism in Adoption No access
Chapter 7 Religion’s Pain Points for Adoptees No access
Chapter 8 Scarcity Unbiased Information and Post-Placement Support No access
Chapter 9 Making the “Right” Choice Religion’s Role in Relinquishment No access
Chapter 10 Emotional Health The Residue of Trauma and Grief No access
Chapter 11 Power Dynamics Race, Class, and the Hierarchy of Adoption No access
Chapter 12 Birth Parent Challenges in Open Adoption No access
Chapter 13 Downstream Effects of Our Decision No access
Chapter 14 Getting to True Openness in Adoption No access
Chapter 15 Unacknowledged Grief No access
Chapter 16 Insecurity No access
Chapter 17 Parenting through the Complexities of Adoption No access
Chapter 18 When Religion Hurts Reexamining Religious Adoption Narratives No access
Chapter 19 NOT Adopting Amid the Cultural Backdrop of Pronatalism No access
Chapter 20 Adoptive Parents and the Dance of Attachment No access
Chapter 21 Supporting Adoptee Maturation Advice for Parents and Other Caregivers (From Sara) No access
Chapter 22 Journeying Home Words of Encouragement for Adult Adoptees (From Sara) No access
Chapter 23 What Now? How Adoption Must Evolve (From Sara, Kelsey, and Lori) No access
