The racism of this message would be harmful to anyone on its receiving end, but it is devastating to someone who has lost not only their birth parents but their connection to their culture and ethnicity to adoption.
Adoption is a permanent fixture in human society; there will always be a need for it. I'm not anti-adoption, but I'm exasperated with how the media often glosses over, exploits or simplifies adoption's complexities for popular consumption.
As adoption researcher and psychologist Nancy Verrier explains, 'Many doctors and psychologists now understand that bonding doesn't begin at birth, but is a continuum of physiological, psychological and spiritual events that begin in utero and continue throughout the postnatal bonding period.'
How does that trauma show up in adoptees? We may have problems with intimacy and attachment; we may experience loss in a much different way than non-adopted people.
#transracial-adoption #adoption-trauma #cultural-identity #racism #psychological-effects-of-adoption
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