Flipping the Script: Adoption and Reproductive Justice
To #FlipTheScript means to challenge staid adoption narratives. It necessitates listening to adoptees’ truths, no matter how uncomfortable.
termination of parental rights
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Read more: Adoptee Rights and Adoption Annulment Adoptee Rights and Adoption Annulment
Activists within today’s adoptee rights movement are working to establish a right to end a person’s own adoption.
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Read more: Striving Towards Ethical Adoption Practice Striving Towards Ethical Adoption Practice
In the United States, the practices of adoption are rarely oriented towards the goals of anti-racism, child-centeredness, and reproductive justice.
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Read more: Understanding Transracial Adoption: Life-long Transformations, Not Frictionless Transactions Understanding Transracial Adoption: Life-long Transformations, Not Frictionless Transactions
Adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them.
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Read more: Institutional Racism and the Rights of Black Fathers Institutional Racism and the Rights of Black Fathers
Two closed adoptions. Two Black men who weren’t allowed to be fathers to their daughters. One system designed to shut them out.
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Read more: A Birthmother Reflects: The Perpetuation of Adoption Myths A Birthmother Reflects: The Perpetuation of Adoption Myths
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.
