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Why we're not Grateful Adoptees: A Critical Look at the Adoptee Experience
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Ungrateful Adoptees
No, I’m not grateful you adopted me.
Why would I be grateful for family separation? Why would I be grateful for being lied to about where I came from? Why would I be grateful for solving their infertility issues? It’s adoptive parents that should be grateful to have us, not the other way around. This episode is all about rejecting the tone-dead narrative of gratefulness in adoption. We poke at all the layers of gratefulness and ungratefulness that we have to deal with behind the scenes as adoptees.
What we discussed
(00:00) We’re not grateful for being adopted: here’s why
(04:18) Adoption is a business OR We are anti-family separation
(06:00) Adoption sites/groups AREN’T our friend OR Adoption twitter is not a safe space
(08:54) Abused by adoptive family OR Abusive adoptive families
(12:40) The “better life” myth in adoption OR “I would have been better off with my biological family”
(14:59) Why child protective services is broken
(17:24) Gratefulness and reunification
(19:19) Not grateful for being lied to as an adoptee
(24:49) Robbing us of our birth right
Links
Peer Support Space (Support Group - Adult Survivors of the Child Welfare System)
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Credits
Special thanks to Samuel Oyedele for editing our podcast, support his work on Instagram or email him at Drumaboyiglobal@gmail.com
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