Resources

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Podcasts

Who Am I, Really? (Stories of Adoptees in Reunion)
Adoptees On (Discussions of the Adoptee Experience)
Do No Harm (Issues with Foster Care)

Podcast Episodes

Spirituality

Adoptee Rights

Barbara Sumner

Featuring Jamie

Finding Hope (Who Am I, Really? Podcast – Episode 31)
Just the Facts, Please (ManListening Podcast)
A Person Born in Two Places (What Next? Adoptee Rights Podcast – Episode 2)

Essays and articles

Who are the Orphan & the Widow: Reimagining James 1:27 (Part 1)
Visiting the Orphan & the Widow: Reimagining James 1:27 (Part 2)
What Is Adoption Coercion?
What the ‘Better Life’ Narrative Takes From Adoptees by Mindy Stern
How Mother-Child Separation Causes Neurobiological Vulnerability Into Adulthood
International Adoption: Orphan Statistics Explained
The Lie We Love (International Adoption)
The Evangelical Orphan Boom by Kathryn Joyce
The ‘Orphan’ I Adopted Already Had a Family by Jessica Davis
What Was the “Baby Scoop Era”?

Videos

Relinquishment and Adoption: Understanding the Impact of an Early Psychological Wound Lecture by Paul Sunderland
Adoption & Addiction Lecture by Paul Sunderland
Can Adoption Be A Good Thing? Speech by Barbara Sumner

Books and Memoirs

American Baby by Gabrielle Glaser
Journey of the Adopted Self by B.J. Lifton
The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce
The Girls Who Went Away by Anne Fessler
The Baby Thief by Barbara Raymond
Worthy To Be Found by Deanna Doss Shrodes
Who Am I, Really? by Damon Davis
The Lies That Bind by Laureen Pittman
The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology

Websites

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