Friday, November 1, 2013
Seeking Birth Family Members
Some films have focused on the journey of adoptees to reconnect with their first families. I wrote about this for The New Social Worker magazine.
Some folks connected to adoption assume that contentment
should come without seeking—that adoptees won’t wonder about their life before
their adoption, and sometimes even giving voice to beliefs that it would be
ungrateful for the adoptee to do so. But
contentment without seeking is not more virtuous than contentment after
seeking. Every person has the right to their own story.
Read the rest at The New Social Worker *I repaired the broken link, I think :)
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