i’m back from my weekend in Texas. While there I had dinner with my closest friend and his mother, my “third mother,” as she rightly calls herself. We talked about my #adoptees panel. She said, “I’ve never thought that adoption was the blessing we say it is. It’s for the adults, not the children.”

20-year-old woman agreed to a closed adoption for her baby, then got a wonderful surprise

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/open-adoption-baby-surprise-ex1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-adoption-baby-surprise-ex1

i talk a lot about adoption’s severance of the parent-child relationship, but of course #adoptees are legally severed (estranged, anonymized) from their *entire* family, including their siblings. (I have two half-brothers I have yet to meet and possibly never will).

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"The State Department does not track how many international #adoptees become naturalized citizens. But, an immigration lawyer scoured records and found that a total of about 200,000 children brought to the U.S. since that year had grown up without U.S. citizenship" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/foreign-adoptees-citizenship-immigration-enforcement.html

#adoptees! This is going to be GREAT.

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I was glad to see some national coverage of this important but unfamiliar issue. #adopteesonadoption #adoptees Born Abroad and Fearful of ICE, Adoptees Try to Prove They Belong - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/foreign-adoptees-citizenship-immigration-enforcement.html

I’m proud of the work #adoptees and birthparents have done over generations to create a systematic critique of our culture’s addiction to adoption & its dependence on a horrifically predatory adoption industry. I praise ther willingness to speak truth, knowing they will earn endless abuse for it. +

if you don’t like the idea that #adoptees are treated as other people’s property—despite there being a $34 billion market in children—then maybe we can agree that adoptees’ legal identities are other people’s property. “I want a child to call my own.” OK, here’s a piece of paper that proves it

If you can, please support VA #adoptees in their effort to regain their rights to their own vital records!

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