Adoptees reckon with corruption in orphanages, hidden birth certificates, and the urge to search for their birth parents.
If someone says of Deanna that she was adopted, she corrects them and says that she is adopted. Being adopted is, to her, as to many adoptees, a profoundly different way of being human, one that affects almost everything about her life.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/10/living-in-adoptions-emotional-aftermath
featuring Angela Tucker (https://www.angelatucker.com/), a Washington adoptee, former head of Amara’s Post-Adoption Program, founder of the Adoptee Mentoring Society (mentoring and support groups for adoptees, by adoptees), podcast host for This Adopted Life and author of the soon-to-be-released book “You Should Be Grateful”.