Was at the cinema earlier. Saw the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's new film "Knock At The Cabin".
Wonder if I'll ever be able to go to the cinema without being confronted with romanticised depictions of adoption. Will little Asian girls forever be cast as white people's cute adopted child? #Adoption #ChildTrafficking #TransnationalAdoption #TransracialAdoption #AbolishAdoption #AdoptionTrauma #AdopteeVoices

Nåmenaltså, jeg er jo ikke engang kommet mit over jetlag endnu før jeg får udlængsel igen - jeg er aldrig helt hjemme i DK, selvom jeg elsker mit hjem. #adoptionslivet #adoptiontrauma

My therapist asked me to write a letter to my first mother. No one has ever suggested that before. I didn't really know what to write. 1013 words later... #Adoption #AdopteeVoices #AdoptionTrauma

ABC News (AUS) did a thoughtful story on the ongoing issue of #adoption contact vetos and the ongoing #adoptiontrauma they perpetuate. Story here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-16/people-who-have-been-adopted-push-to-end-restraining-orders/101573656

The child will also be told that it should be grateful, for being adopted. It will frequently be told that its biological mother gave it away or didn't want it. It will be told that life with its biological mother, would have been bad. It will be gaslighted and silenced.

#Adoption #AdopteeVoices #AdoptionTrauma

Adoption is trauma. A child is removed from its parents, has its identity erased and shipped to another family, possibly of a different race, nationality and culture. That trauma is irreversible.
If the child is BIPOC, and adopted by a white family, it will experience racism, regardless of how well meaning the adopters are. And the child will have no one to turn to. The people who are supposed to care for it the most, will not understand.

#Adoption #AdopteeVoices #AdoptionTrauma