Imagine the impact $6 million could have if we donated to families in crisis instead of hopeful adopters. 🥚 "GoFundMe allows people to contribute online to causes they believe in. There have been more than 3,000 adoption-related fundraisers in the last four years, raising more than $6 million."

This #Adoption moment is brought to you by the Christian Broadcasting Network. How many times has any/every adopter, regardless of their "box" that defines them, said: "When I saw they posted her picture I knew this was our daughter." At least the price tags are shown. cbn.com/news/us/thou...

“Persuading international donors to shift their focus toward family-based care is not straightforward, says anthropologist Mackynzie Archer. ‘Donors often assume a Western-funded orphanage will care for children better than a Haitian family can.’” 🥚

Your reminder that the secrecy, anonymity, falsification, and deception that are the hallmarks of US adoption practices have life or death consequences for adoptees. 🥚 Insurance companies will not reimburse for certain cancer screenings or genetic tests without an attested family history.

Logging into my health insurance portal to update my information, and once again there lacks an option for "Adopted" in the family history section. 🥚 Insurance companies, you have to do better. It's a simple, yet important, addition to your system.

I distinctly remember the first time I saw my "birth certificate" as a kid. I knew it was wrong to see my adoptive parents listed as the parents of live birth, but my little kid brain went into protective mode and stopped me from thinking about the truth. To survive, I had to embrace the fiction. 🥚

no one should ever be allowed to "close" an #adoption and legally anonymize a person from their family. we need to imagine long-term custodial care without the pernicious idea of erasing and rewriting a child's identity to suit other people's dreams of family building.

i am an #adoption abolitionist. This means different things to different people who favor abolition, but to me at a basic minimum it means no legal falsification of a person's vital records.

Adoptive parents are prioritized over *everyone* involved in the process. So anything that will decrease the risk of the adoptee “spoiling the narrative” is legal AND encouraged smh. 🥚

My amended birth certificate that lists my adoptive parents as my literal biological parents has a note at the bottom: “This is to certify that this is a true and correct reproduction or abstract of the official record filed with the Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia” That’s not…

"but didn't you have a good #adoption experience?" to the extent one can have a good experience being raised by people who resolved their infertility crisis by acquiring a child who was born to a family purposely made legally anonymous and was told to live in a fictitious timeline--yeah, sure

Adoption is severance. Complete severance. Adoptees lose all their rights to their families because the law no longer recognizes those relationships as real. That's what happens when you adopt a child. You are helping banish them from their families so you can start a new family. 🥚

🥚 International adoption as forced displacement: “I’ve decided to speak out about how I lost my sister and my mother due to adoption. I myself have been torn apart. I want to make it clear that international adoption was not the answer for us.” english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

What begins as a search for identity becomes a reckoning with the story she was given and what it left out. The piece shows how many adoptees are left to navigate identity, loss, and unanswered questions on their own. 🥚

Tangent, but when adoptees speak up about our rights, or even our feelings, one of the common questions we get is "would you have rather been aborted?" Most of us say "yes".

#Adoptees should have the legal right to access their original birth certificates and annul their adoptions. Both violate a person's inherent human right to know and preserve their own identities. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. #adoption 🥚

“If people do not know their history, they are liable to repeat it." Bryan Stevenson on the importance of facing our past honestly, the power of hope, and the opportunities that emerge when you stand with condemned and disfavored people. @edwardluce.bsky.social @ftweekend.com

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#adoptees! This is going to be GREAT.

I’m honored to be reading as part of this Words as Lifelines series Sunday night at 6pm ET, along with @alandettlaff.com & @gretchensisson.bsky.social, talking adoption, family policing, repro justice & more, to benefit families in Gaza. Donate & join us if you can: form.jotform.com/joonae/lifel...

"I couldn’t yet embrace the truth—that even when adoptive parents are the very best, they likely aren’t enough to fill the gap in your abandoned soul. That’s normal. Not betrayal. I didn’t just want or need to know who I was and where I came from; I deserved it." Excellent writing . 🥚

I hate this comeback. Adoption isn't great at solving anyone's problems, actually, and we certainly wouldn't want these people adopting. (Also, actually, plenty of anti-abortion people DO ADOPT. AND IT'S TERRIBLE!) As an adoptee, I'm begging pro-choice people to stop. We're not your pithy reply.🥚

UK: “Historical forced adoption practices coerced mothers and caused unimaginable trauma for multiple generations of women and profound, devastating impacts for their children” US: Let’s push poor women to give their babies to rich ones and call it a blessing. 🥚 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The funniest thing I've heard yet today is that people think #adoption agencies actually consult with extended family members or fathers first before "placing" babies with strangers. I mean come on! They're businesses that depend on a supply of infants to make money! Why would they risk a sale?! 🥚

Most people are simply ignorant when it comes to the facts about #adoption. Extended families are never consulted, and fathers are often excluded. And there's zero consideration for the rights of the actual adoptee. We're simply pawns in a billion dollar industry. 🥚

Sometimes it's best to simply listen and let things simmer before speaking. Half-baked insights are rarely worth serving up.

My brother is living proof that I come from somewhere, and we are not alone in this world. #adoption 🥚 www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/...

The punishment for commenting on an IG post celebrating gay rights to #adoption is endless notifications from people telling me I am a bad person.

That’s the most ironic thing if we were orphans there would be a search high and low for next of kin.

I wasn't an orphan. My first parents are still living. I have over a dozen aunts & uncles. No one bothered to ask them if they wanted to parent me. Instead I was placed in foster care & sold to the couple next in line. Ironically, If both my parents had died, I would've stayed with my first family 🥚

After her son Blake was killed by his adoptive mother, his biological mother is now fighting to reconnect with her other sons in foster care. The case highlights both profound personal loss and a system that severs families while failing to protect the children within it. buff.ly/NKM4dQc 🥚

one of the junta's officials, who acquired a child taken from one of the disappeared, had the astonishing gall to say during the trial for his crimes, "There is no precedent in the world, not even in Stalin's Russia, for someone to be tried for raising an orphan." 🥚 www.npr.org/2010/02/27/1...

It should be extremely embarrassing for the US, as a whole country, to be the lone wolf regarding the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child.

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Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains completely changed my life. It introduced me to Paul Farmer and inspired me to work toward change no matter how small my efforts might seem. I've carried his words with me ever since.

Lying is inherent in #adoption. Adoptees are given new birth certificates when adopted that list their adoptive parents as the parents of live birth. The original certificate is locked away and only accessible to adoptees in certain states. No one is ever legally required to tell us we're adopted.

I looked nothing at all like my adopters. I used to stare at myself in the mirror and wonder why I looked the way I did. Seeing biological relatives was what allowed me to make sense of my body and find beauty in it.

I’m adopted, not donor-conceived. But I lived the first 4 decades of my life in a state of genetic bewilderment. I think it lowers self-esteem and breeds a kind of dysmorphia. Living in my skin was like wearing some unknown person’s clothes. It took reunion for me to feel truly at home in my body. 🥚

“Deception strikes at one of the most basic questions of human identity: ‘Who are my parents?’” - said by adoptees *everywhere*. But you wouldn’t know that if you read that article lmao. This screenshot also speaks on children not being commodities. Where else have you heard that????🥚

I'm over here scratching my head thinking the same thing. We #adoptees use this same language every day to explain why denying us access to our origins is harmful yet most of y'all tell us to sit down and be grateful. Lying about biology is always wrong no matter the context.

They were taken from their land, their families, their culture. And now the onus is on them to prove they belong?! It's legalized child kidnapping and servitude to a host nation. Second class citizens. No rights. I'm so fucking angry. 🥚

This framing—can intercountry adoptees PROVE they don’t deserve to be punished for their adopters’ malfeasance?—is yet another illustration of the TOTAL invisibility of #adoption as the human-rights catastrophe it is.

I don’t think I’ve read something that spoke to my soul this deeply in a VERY long time. And I would REALLY appreciate if yall read this too. It’s about genealogical bewilderment. 🥚

Hey #adoptees. You'll find some familiar language in this article. The author cites evidence that was used to support the argument that denying a person's access to their familial origins is harmful. That evidence was used to push this bill forward in SD. It was quite stunning to read 🥚

I understand this so well. I'm of one family and part of another, but not really connected to either in the way I crave to be. 🥚

I share this sentiment: I am in, but not of, my adopter family. I am of, but not in, my Iranian family.

"The problem is decades old, but has taken on new urgency during the Trump administration’s determination to deport millions of undocumented immigrants." Thanks to @nytimes.com and Elizabeth Williamson for this article www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...