Life Issues for Adult Adoptees
Expressions of life issues experienced by adult adoptees include the effects of closed adoptions, loss, and emotional trauma.
12 Step Program for Adoptees From Adoption Separation Aftermath.
Adoptee Perspectives on Adoption At a conference in Australia, a search counselor offers knowledge gained from interviews with adoptees. While the information is in the context of search and reunion, it offers insights into a variety of issues faced by adoptees.
Adoption: Trauma That Lasts A Lifetime In a term paper, adoptee Vicki Rummig looks at psychological effects from childhood through adulthood.
Going Back So You Can Go Forward For adoptee Bill Wattendorf, going back to find foster parents was an important step in closing the circle.
I'm Angry Adoptee Ann Slagle is angry. Find out why. Good reading.
Issues Facing Adult Adoptees Low self-esteem, fear of abandonment, and other issues are discussed, with suggestions for coping.
Lifelong Issues Seven issues affecting all members of the adoption experience.
Lucy Misses The Movie An adoption analogy...
Many Hands: An Adoptee's Healing Journey Feeling the loss is the start of healing for author Marcy Axness.
Reflections of an Adult Adoptee An attachment-affected adult adoptee offers a look back at a painful past and forward to a hopeful future... a story shared to encourage community dialog as a means of greater understanding.
"Relinquishment and Adoption Are Different" Ron Nydam's 1995 paper puts forward the belief that adoptees and birth parents must come to terms with the difference between these two acts. Dr. Nydam is the author of
Adoptees Come of Age.
Stigma For adoptees as well as non-adopted people, for support needed in discovering we were conceived in rape or incest. This is our own private community, complete with message boards, a chat room, and other ways to heal through interacting with others concerning our situations.
"The Angry Adoptee" Why are adoptees angry? Birthmother Carol Komissaroff talks to adoptive parents.
"The Primal Wound" Precourser to her book of the same name, Nancy Verrier's 1991 speech to the American Adoption Congress introduced her controversial theory.
The Void Behind Us What do adoptees have in common? Jonathan Marin gives his view.
What Is The Primal Wound? Author Marcy Axness examines the trauma of separation.
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