Question #1: Heather

The question of abandonment continues to be one of the biggest things I have had to deal with in my life. The whys, the pain, the hurt, the loss and the effects are limitless.
In my case, I was born during a war. I remember knowing as far back as I can remember that there was [...]

Question #1: Juli

Adoption is trauma. I don’t fully understand it, but I’m beginning to appreciate the ways in which those (very) early experiences have shaped the way I live my life. There’s no reason to enumerate the sudden, dramatic changes adoptees experience – I will only say that even as someone abandoned and fostered under the “best” [...]