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What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing

Jay Barbanel, author of Finding Tico, unpacks what he spent two decades avoiding, and what it took to finally choose healing over silence.

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Best Christmas Present (All Sales Final)

We hear about “adopted” Christmas puppies being returned to shelters when they lose their festive novelty. What happens when the novelty of a human child “gift” wears off?

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Adoptee Advocates: Lina Vanegas

Explore our interview with Lina Vanegas, a social worker and advocate, as she shares powerful insights on adoption trauma, mental health, and suicide prevention, ensuring adoptees’ voices are heard.

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  • Most non-adopted people oversimplify and invalidate the grief of adoptees because they assume that our families are just like other families.

    Adoptee Land by Kristen, Adoptee Contributor

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  • It’s such a curious thing how being relinquished is never talked about with sorrow; but instead with applaud for the adoptive parents.

    Adoption, Shame & Cocktail Parties by Amy, Adoptee Contributor

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  • I played the role of being a chameleon; not realizing the toxicity of what I was doing in allowing people to mislabel me.

    Latina Mislabeled by Martha, Adoptee Contributor

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View fullsize For years, adoptive parents have said things like: “I wish I knew this when we first adopted.” “I felt like I was navigating in the dark.” The truth is… you don’t have to anymore. Adoption Mosaic @adoptionmosaic
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View fullsize If you’ve adopted a child of a different race, your responsibility didn’t end once some papers were final. It started there. This is a lifelong commitment. If adoption is a lifelong legal contract for us, it should be a lifelong commi
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