Thank you for writing this well researched and documented article. As a 74.5 year old adoptee, brought home from the hospital at 3 days old, and finding out about the addictions and trauma of adoption only 3-4 years ago I can say with some authority to this information would have been very helpful about 40 years ago when I was found. That said; I know that most, if not all, of it was not available in the early 80s when I was found. I now know that my APs should not have been parents at all. My ADad was a bully and my AMom never showed any affection or love whatsoever.
Thank you for writing this well researched and documented article. As a 74.5 year old adoptee, brought home from the hospital at 3 days old, and finding out about the addictions and trauma of adoption only 3-4 years ago I can say with some authority to this information would have been very helpful about 40 years ago when I was found. That said; I know that most, if not all, of it was not available in the early 80s when I was found. I now know that my APs should not have been parents at all. My ADad was a bully and my AMom never showed any affection or love whatsoever.