Adoptee Issues

Most public conversations about adoption focus on the birth mother, the adoptive parents, or the process itself. Rarely do they center the adoptee — the one whose entire path in life is indelibly altered. This blog discusses the core issues this primal wound brings up for adoptees, with hope for healing it.

We were given up by the very person who brought us into the world, disconnected in an instant from the only safety we had ever known. How can we make peace with this?