Adoption Evolution

04/23/2026

04/23/2026

My colleague Bruce is absolutely right thank you very much. I am going to have to have him on as a guest. I’m gonna blow his mind and talk about Adoption trauma and he will agree with me 100% because he’s already leaning this way.

04/23/2026

We got some national coverage here wow blowing the lid off the political behemoth

Today, adoption is a billion-dollar industry, with an estimated 1–2 million people waiting to adopt at a given time. Cutting this demand would require making adoption, as it is currently practiced, socially and politically stigmatized. Reimagining adoption in the West requires confronting the legal infrastructure that allows for children to be purchased through a private market and families to be policed by the state.

However, the orphan-rescue story has considerable cultural and political purchase, and adoption occupies a nearly unparalleled position in American politics; the Congressional Coalition on Adoption is one of the largest bipartisan, bicameral caucuses in Congress. Adoption serves both sides of the political spectrum: It maintains the right’s ideal of the heteronormative family structure at the same time that it flatters the left’s commitment to the nontraditional “chosen family.”

Consequently, the US is becoming more “adoption-friendly,” and with a capitalist economy that produces widespread deprivation and intense demand for parentage, paired with eroding reproductive rights, it seems likely that family separation will continue, if not expand substantially, in the coming decades. To undermine this deeply entrenched structure requires, in the first instance, seeding a politics of refusal: a disorientation from the idea that there exists a right to parenthood regardless of the means required to secure it, and a rejection of the consumer demand that considers other people’s children as the answer to the desire for parenthood. Read more from M Ceniza:
http://thenation.com/article/society/us-adoption-imperialism-joshua-mast/

04/22/2026

The psychological effects of being adopted can be far-reaching. Learn the effects of adoption and how to find a therapist who specializes in working with adoptees.

04/22/2026

The cliff! I write about this as a very big nervous system transition for adopted women and traumatized women

"I wasn’t just having hot flashes. I was startling more easily. Sleeping lightly. Feeling wired and tired at the same time. Small things felt big. Recovery took longer. Rest didn’t always feel restful..."

Article link in comments. 👇

04/19/2026

I believe that the right diagnosis is unbelievably important to understand yourself. Overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis is extremely extremely common and the adoption and previously fostered community and very often medication and multiple medication’s are used incorrectly.

04/19/2026

Beautiful post. So brave.

04/19/2026

04/19/2026

We were told everything peaks early. But science says otherwise. New research shows that women's overall mental functioning, when you combine reasoning, knowledge, emotional intelligence, judgment, and decision‑making, actually peaks between ages 55 and 60, not in youth.

Yep! It only keeps getting better. A 2025 study led by Gilles E. Gignac at the University of Western Australia analyzed decades of data across 16 cognitive and personality traits, from emotional intelligence to conscientiousness and decision-making.

The takeaway? These years mark a cognitive sweet spot, fueled by greater emotional stability, a strong sense of self, and sharper judgment.

Turns out, the brain doesn’t slow down; it levels up.

04/19/2026

A week from today 2 PM in person or the virtual option

Adoption Evolution Sunday Salon: Forming the Adoption DiasporaA monthly gathering for adopted, previoulsy fostered or trafficked adults- the AFTThis is not a typical support group.This is a space for understanding, connection, and real conversation- specifically for those who lived it.If you are an....