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  1. Just for fun, here's my father (l) & me (r), side by side. He was about 30 in his pic, I was about 15 in mine. Pretty wild, no?

    (A surfboard had broken my nose a cpl of wks b4 this pic was taken, but normally, we had/have the same nose.) #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adoptoverse #DNAmatters

  2. "Adoption also isn't driven by children w/o families; it's driven by the desires & demands of unrelated strangers to add those children to their own families. The orphan discourse (& the resulting confusion about the actual numbers of orphans worldwide) reflects market demand for children, not children's actual need for care." Another Must Read about #adoption by an #adopted person. #adopteevoices #adopteesonadoption #adopteerights #adoptoverse adoptionpolitics.substack.com/

  3. "No intoning of words or signing of papers or, indeed, a lifetime of attentive & loving care, has the power to make or unmake kinship relations." This is a fundamental truth. & the linked piece is an absolute Must Read. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adoptoverse open.substack.com/pub/corsent/

  4. (As an adoptee who'd grown up in a closed adoption--w/ ppl whom I was NOTHING like, not physically or in any other way--being told I resembled someone was a very weird thing. I lived my entire life never looking like ANYONE--until I finally reunited w/ my mother in 2011. That message--you look like so-&-so!--never had any meaning for me. It was such an utter non-sequitur. I don't think non-adopted ppl get it, but that's a very weird, discombobulating way to live.) #adopteevoices #adoptoverse

  5. When I was younger, old people used to tell me I looked like the actress/director, Ida Lupino, all the time. I was never able to see it. But now that I'm an old person, I kinda do. I think it's the mouth (& long philtrum). That's me on the left (at around age 38-39) & the late Ms. Lupino on the right. Do you see it or no? & who do ppl tell you you look like? Anyone? #adopteevoices #adoptoverse

  6. I am a pro-choice adoptee. It hurts my heart knowing my mother was denied her most basic human right to choose. Forcing ppl to reproduce against their will is unethical & immoral. IMO, it's downright twisted. I am #adopted & I am pro-choice, pro-health, pro-sex, pro-family, & pro-life. 6/6 #adopteevoices #adoptoverse #prochoiceisprolife #abortionisessential #happybirthdaytomybaby