Guest post - The Hidden Voice - Searching Was Never a Vote Against My Family
There is a question that seems to follow adopted people more than most:
Did you ever search for your birth family?
People often ask with genuine curiosity. But behind it, there can sometimes be another question:
If you searched, did that mean something was missing?
Adopters and Hopeful Adopters. What Should They Know? - Guest Post
I was asked not too long ago, what do I think Adopters, and hopeful adopters should know … This is a difficult, complicated subject to approach.
It involves people’s hopes and dreams. It deals with wants versus needs, with griefs real and often unacknowledged. It’s a delicate class 1.1 explosive, sensitive and liable to detonate under fairly mild conditions. It seems too much.
Guest Post - Lessons of My Life by Gaynor Cherieann. Adoptee and Author.
I was of course one of the babies whose mothers were forced to give them up in the 1960s because they were unmarried.