Life Issues
Expressions of life issues experienced by adult adoptees include the effects of closed adoptions, loss, and emotional trauma.
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Adoptee Perspectives on Adoption
At a conference in Australia, a search counselor offered knowledge gained from interviews with adoptees. While the information is in the context of search and reunion, it offers insights into a variety of issues faced by adoptees.
In a term paper, adoptee Vicki Rummig looks at psychological effects from childhood through adulthood.
Going Back So You Can Go Forward
For adoptee Bill Wattendorf, going back to find foster parents was an important step in closing the circle.
What Being Adopted Means to Me
Adoptee Ann Slagle is angry. Find out why. Good reading.
Issues Facing Adult Adoptees
Low self-esteem, fear of abandonment, and other issues are discussed, with suggestions for coping.
Lifelong Issues
Seven core issues affecting all members of the adoption experience.
Lucy Misses The Movie
An adoption analogy...
Many Hands: An Adoptee's Healing Journey
Feeling the loss is the start of healing for author Marcy Axness.
Ron Nydam's 1995 paper puts forward the belief that adoptees and birth parents must come to terms with the difference between these two acts. Dr. Nydam is the author of Adoptees Come of Age.
Stigma
For adoptees as well as non-adopted people, for support needed in discovering we were conceived in rape or incest. This is our own private community, complete with message boards, a chat room, and other ways to heal through interacting with others concerning our situations.
The Angry Adoptee
Why are adoptees angry? Birthmother Carol Komissaroff talks to adoptive parents.
The Primal Wound
Precourser to her book of the same name, Nancy Verrier's 1991 speech to the American Adoption Congress introduced her controversial theory.
The Primal Wound, for the Adoptee
Nancy Newton Verrier, author of "The Primal Wound," addresses this article to adoptees.
What Is The Primal Wound?
Author Marcy Axness examines the trauma of separation.
Library of Articles For and About Adoptees
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