Adoption Deconstructed

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12 Things People Always Ask Me About Adoption
...and why these questions matter.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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Born Bad. Blame the Mother.
Rescue in the shadow of eugenics
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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That World-Famous Dunedin Study
53 Years, over 1,300 papers - are we missing something?
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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Tree of Strangers
Runanga, West Coast, New Zealand, 1983.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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How to be Invisible
The high-stakes social experiment we call adoption.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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Adoption and Human Rights
Can the limitation of rights that adoption requires be justified?
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Sharyn White
Reunion P*rn and That One NZ campaign
The funny thing about being a late discovery adoptee.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Preverbal trauma, plenary adoption, and the cost of legal erasure in the United States. Guest post by Lorah Gerald aka The Adopted Chameleon.
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Lorah Gerald
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What do you mean by post-adoption?
A powerful critique of the symbolic violence of the term "post-adoption" and the culture it enables.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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What the Hague
An exercise in health politics that conceals and omits adoption harm, avoids accountability, and recasts state control as progress.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.
The state erased our records. Then failed to study the consequences.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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Why I Hate Biographies
Good adopted people do not need to know about their origins, and I so wanted to be good.
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Dr Barbara Sumner
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Empowering adopted people through knowledge.
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