PEAR is giving to voice to the victims of FOC Utah: below is the first statement, from Elizabeth Muenzler, Adoptive Mother of a trafficked child. Many thanks for your invitation to write a statement on your blog concerning the recent Focus on Children case. We are the parents of one of the children involved and after having been vilified in …
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The Un-Angry Adoptee and Adoption Guilt
~ By Barbara J McArtney I was relinquished at birth to a local agency and adopted at 6 weeks of age. I was told by my Parents that my birth Parents “gave me up” because they were unmarried college students. My Parents adopted following the death of their second born son and simultaneous loss of my Mother’s fertility. I am …
Helping Adoptive Parents Understand the Role of Families of Origin: From the Viewpoint of Another Mother Who Lost her Child to Adoption
~by Suz Bednarz How could I, me, a mother who lost a child to adoption in 1986, possibly help adoptive parents understand the role of families of origin? Didn’t my role end the minute my child was taken from me and given to them? Harsh question but until a few years back that is what I was lead to believe. …
Helping Adoptive Parents Understand the Role of Families of Origin: From the Viewpoint of a Mother who lost a child to adoption
~ by Mirah Riben The United Nations has determined that the difference between a good and bad life for a child is a mother with a sense of empowerment. Adopting a child today is far different than it was a generation or two ago when it was felt best to keep the entire process secretive. Adopting today requires accepting the …