Study 10,000 hours of the adoption industry.

If you are looking for answers to anything adoption related, study the history of adoption, listen to adoptee stories, transracial adoptees, brown, black, asian, white, all stories, good and bad, read books, watch videos, listen for similarities, the solutions to your problems you are facing will become clear I promise you. You may be looking for how you can do best for your adopted child, you may be infertile looking for answers on if you should, could adopt, you may be searching for answers with a suicidal adoptee child, you may be searching for answers just about why you feel the way you feel as an adoptee, whatever your specific situation is, it can be solved with simple studying. Movies, tv, social media and false narratives can do massive damage to understanding the inner workings of adoption, transracial adoption, and what the reality is, it is extremely complex and there is a lot of BS out there, if you put in your own study time, you will come to your own conclusions to what will work best for you and your situation, happy researching!
BOOKS: (There are so many good books but these are the best ones I believe cover most everything you need to know)
Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction
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The Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency Workbook for Children and Teens: A Trauma-Informed Resource
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The Seven Core Issues Workbook for Parents of Traumatized Children and Teens
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Adoption Healing: ...A Path to Recovery
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The Baby Thief: The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s
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Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists (Adoption Books for Adults)
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
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Adoption and Suicidality: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Resources for Adoptees, Families, Healthcare Professionals, and Allies (Unraveling Adoption Book Series)
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What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
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The Adoptive Parents' Handbook: A Guide to Healing Trauma and Thriving with Your Foster or Adopted Child
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Parenting Children of Trauma: The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder
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Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
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Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
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Out of the Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
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VIDEOS:
Adoption Study Playlist: (I put together some of the best videos I could find of the history of adoption, lived experiences and the best Ted talks on TH-cam)
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STUDIES & ARTICLES:
adoptionnetwor...
en.m.wikipedia...
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www.hslcnys.or...
Joe Soll (Author of Adoption and Healing)
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2013 study:
publications.a...
Updated Study of the 2013 study:
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States who still have sealed medical records:
adopteerightsl...
www.adopteerig...
Inside the Conservative Movement to Promote Adoption
www.motherjone...
How Mother-Child Separation Causes Neurobiological Vulnerability Into Adulthood
www.psychologi...
The neuroscience of birth - and the case for Zero
Separation
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ADOPTION CANNOT BE REFORMEDAshley Albert& Amy Mulzer†
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www.newyorker....
www.transforma...