Adoption and the Meaning of Consent
In adoption, we rarely consider the constraints on autonomy that often preclude meaningful choice.
adoption trauma
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To insinuate that it is simple to relinquish a child for adoption diminishes the magnitude of the deep loss for the first/birth mother and the adoptee.
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Relinquishing a child for adoption is an alternative to parenting that child, not to carrying a pregnancy to term.
