5 Reasons You Should Listen to Adoptees Instead of Adoption Experts
1. Experts in past eras got a lot of it wrong. Blank slates, secrets, born-as-if-to and separating twins and triplets in an effort to study nurture versus nature (and provide more babies to waiting families) are just a few examples of how the adoption experts of bygone eras got it so, so, wrong. Just read up on child trafficker, Georgia Tann , and you will see the corruption that facilitated sealed records. From doctors and lawyers who “knew somebody” to judges who signed off on questionable adoptions, if we look to the Baby Scoop Era for guidance, there is only one conclusion: the “experts” got most of it wrong. 20/20 recently reported on this. 2. Most adoption experts are benefiting financially from the adoption industry. Money tends to cloud ones motivations when it comes to educating about adoption. Employees of adoption agencies benefit when adopt...