Rebecca: Who Is a Worthy Mother?

S9, Ep. 1: Rebecca
Rebecca is an adoptee, mother, teacher, historian, and award-winning author of the recently published ‘Who Is a Worthy Mother'? An Intimate History of Adoption.’ Rebecca was driven to write a history of adoption in the United States from the perspective of an adoptee and to honor the memory of her older sister and the truth of brave women everywhere. Rebecca teaches in the School of Education at the University of Puget Sound and lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters.
Adoption stories, Adoptee experiences, Adoptee insights,
Adopted perspective, Adoption journeys, Adoptee identity, Adoptee voices, Adoption narratives, Growing up adopted, Adoptee reflections,
Adoption realities, Finding family: Adoptee# tales, Adoption insights, Adoptee culture, Adoption challenges, Adoption truths, Adoptee conversations,
Adoptee community, Adoption experiences
#adoptee #adoption #adopteestories #adopteevoices #podcast #podcasting #atmom
Adoption stories, Adoptee experiences, Adoptee insights,
Adopted perspective, Adoption journeys, Adoptee identity, Adoptee voices, Adoption narratives, Growing up adopted, Adoptee reflections,
Adoption realities, Finding family: Adoptee# tales, Adoption insights, Adoptee culture, Adoption challenges, Adoption truths, Adoptee conversations,
Adoptee community, Adoption experiences
#adoptee #adoption #adopteestories #adopteevoices #podcast #podcasting #atmom

[@rudolfowens]

Yes, it is 100 percent a human and legal right to know one's identity. Agree completely. Appreciate you sharing that. I'm also incredibly sad to hear how cruel and inhumane the courts and public health systems controlling adoptee records were to you. This is how they show up for adoptees nearly always. It's cruel beyond reason.

[@H-nx8wr]

All of us were thrown to the wind, one way or another, many of us losing all of our cultural birthrights in the process. The greatest challenge, however, is in facing the fact that most adult adoptees, if born today, would just be an abortion statistic.
We were dehumanised by the adoption process. This dehumanisation continues today by the politics of abortion.