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Showing posts with label Jean Strauss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean Strauss. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Making the first contact with a first mother: What not to say

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Jane "One reason I had searched for [my birth mother] was that I wanted to tell her that she'd done the right thing. I always ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The awful legacy of adoption

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Lorraine "The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its o...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Does one adoption spawn another? Too often for comfort.

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Jane & I bought the same black stone washed jeans independentl As many of the comments regarding the previous post about "I...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

New short film about adoptee rights

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Bills that put adoptee rights first in giving them back their original identities are in the works in at least
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Adopted: For the Life of Me illustrates how sealed records hurt

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Lorraine Riding on a train not so long ago I struck up a conversation with the man sitting next to me, and in time I was talking about th...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Knowing the Truth of One's Origins When the Truth is Not Pretty

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Trying to avoid adoption these days? Best to keep the TV off. The adoption story of the evening on Friday came on ABC's 20/20. It was an...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Why Reunions Go Awry: What Memoirs of Adopted Daughters Tell Birthmothers

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Denise Roessle’s “What Do We Owe Our Children” demonstrated once again that the course of a reunion never does run smooth. Some adoptees r...
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