When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees
What happens when the adoptee is centered as the hero in their own story? These are whole-hearted conversations with adoptees and adoption experts who are at the forefront of alchemizing adoption trauma into positive impact for you and the rest of the world. Each episode is designed to make you feel empowered, informed and fortified with a variety of methods, healing modalities and expert advice.
This is for the adoptee, parents, and the adoption-curious.
When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees
Ep. 71 Gretchen Sisson: Relinquished: The politics of Adoption and the privilege of American Motherhood
Today I have the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Gretchen Sisson about her critically acclaimed book "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood." Gretchen is a sociologist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studies adoption and abortion.
We discuss:
-How national crisis create opportunities for adoption
-The views of white mothers on relinquishing their biracial children to white adopters
-The laws behind kinship care and valuing children staying in their original culture
-The definition of transracial adoption
-Why there is a national interest to increase adoption
-The impact of overturning of Roe v Wade on the adoption industry
-Laws that have been implemented to help adoptees retrieve their biological histories
- Project 2025
And finally I ask the question “Is adoption child centered” and what Gretchen will enlighten you.
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ADOPTEE CONVERSATIONS WITH PARENTS:
14 through18, and episode 28, and 29.
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