TCH LIF SOC HUM MS MS Perpetual Infant: The Absurdity of Adult Adoptee Status The legal and social framework of closed adoption creates a unique and paradoxical form of personhood. From birth through adulthood…
LIF HUM MDA MS MS From Compassion to Commodity: The Corruption of National Adoption Month Each November, the United States observes National Adoption Month. The official narrative paints a picture of charitable rescue, a…
LIF MS MS Inherited Absence: Family Systems Theory and the Adopted Child Family Systems Theory, pioneered by psychiatrist Murray Bowen, presents a family as an emotional unit. This complex network operates like a…