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Mothers
Do not expect a fairytale ending when you arrange a reunion with your adopted child, the lost years have different effects on everyone involved. It is a very personal journey, and one that bears with it much trauma. Remain strong as you always have had to be ...
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Adopted people
Medical history can't be written and handed over, it has to be absorbed. People often don't realise the relevance until the information is needed.
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Adopted people
my experience of adoption has been good and bad i think im better for it..i think its a hard road but if your survivng thats ok..the fear of abandonment is always there its a constant..its made who i am its moulded and shaped me..thank GOD ive made it so far
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Adopted people
My experience involves parental secrecy of my adoptive status and my discovery of this at age 21. I reflect on the effect secrecy had on my childhood development and the ability to effectively build body image and a secure personality. Attched Link to my PhD thesis and other published material.
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Adopted people
being born being adopted learning about life blessngs and curses ups and down hot and cold i have lived learned loved hated and been inbetween i have a richh perception of life and have seen humanity at many different turns adoption has changed me..
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Mothers
"You committed a crime against society, and just because society has changed the rules, it doesn't lessen the crime."
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Family
Forever you live with a hole bored through your heart and soul; you search for the face of your precious baby in the face of others every day of your life; you silently weep on her birthday, Christmas - any time when the waves crash..... Time does NOT heal these wounds.
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Family
No one ever told my mother there was a Commonwealth benefit she could have received to support Helen and herself.
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