Changing the "Lucky Child" Adoption Narrative
From The Adoption Wait by Adopting.com
June 7, 2023 · 44 min · Season 2 · Episode 4
About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities of the adoption narrative and the various outcomes for children in the adoption process.
"Whether our daughter had stayed with her birth family, whether she ended up with us, whether she ended up with any of the hundreds of other prospective adoptive families that were waiting to adopt at the same time we were, she was always going to be l...
Topics covered
- adoption narrative
- birth family
- prospective adoptive families
- parenting
- family dynamics
Keywords
- adoption
- birth family
- lucky child
- prospective families
- parenting
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