Celebrity Chat: Adam Pertman
Author of Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America
Photo credit: Judy Baumwoll |
On Wednesday, September 5th, Adam Pertman joined us a second time for an hour of questions and answers, exchange of ideas and opinions, and general conversation. His enormously popular book has just been released in paperback form.
Due to a technical glitch, the logging system cut out after only 30 seconds, therefore, a transcript will not be available. However, you are invited to read the
reviews of the book, and the
transcript of our first chat.
The author of
Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America is an adoptive parent who, in his own words, is working toward more openness in the adoptions of his two children. He cites education about basic adoption issues, and the desire for his children and their counterparts to avoid the ordeals faced by today's adoption community as his primary reasons for writing the book.
Discussing open adoption and arguments that it causes confusion for children, Pertman says:
I think kids are much more capable of unraveling who's who (as they do in divorced families) than we give them credit for. we carry our own insecurities and worries about them, then transfer them to the kids and assume they feel the same way.
On the subject of access to original birth information for adult adoptees, he was quite adamant in maintaining that while adoptees may be "different," in the same way as members of families formed by remarriage after divorce or families with disparate faiths are different, they are not "lesser," and should be accorded the same legal rights as all other groups and individuals.
And when asked about the transformation he sees taking place in and through adoption today, he explained:
The fundamental change in adoption is this very openness that we show in discussing it. Institutionally, this plays out with more and healthier open relationships - and that impacts on our culture in major ways.
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