Today marks the close of Adoption Month, and the holiday season is fast approaching. Please extend extra kindness to adoptees, many of whom have mixed feelings about the concepts of family and 'belonging'.

#NationalAdoptionMonth #kindness #compassion #adoption #EndOfLife #grief

going to thread some recent #adoption conversations I've participated in! first, I'm grateful to Mina Kim, KQED Forum, & my fellow #adoptee Tony Hynes for today's discussion: Complicating and Questioning Adoption ‘Salvation’ Narratives

https://kqed.org/forum/2010101891287/complicating-and-questioning-adoption-salvation-narratives

#adoption #adopteevoices #NationalAdoptionMonth #NAAM

The State Department reports that the United States receives about half of the world’s total intercountry adoptees. Since 2000, U.S. citizens have adopted over 250,000 children from other countries. #NationalAdoptionMonth