If you read this week’s column on the invisibility of adopted people in data, here's a handy chart drbarbarasumner.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

Multiple layers of anger and aggression circulate within the adoptive family. 🥚
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I 100% agree with Tony @notalegalrecord.net
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"Conducting experimental studies on humans and exposing humans to the considered risk factor of maternal separation is not possible as it disagrees with the principles of research ethics.”
Unless you call it adoption.
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Out now: drbarbarasumner.substack.com/p/maternal-

A short piece about inheritance law in Aotearoa New Zealand. Available 8 am tomorrow morning (20th April NZ time). #adoptees 🥚

An essay coming up on inheritance laws and adoption. Subscribe here to receive an email notification: drbarbarasumner.substack.com
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Now that's a tough question...

This is why I love writing for Substack. 🥚
#adoptees #fertilityjourney #fertilityawareness #family #parenting #adoption
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What readers are saying. #adoptees 🥚
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I'm always keen to talk about adoption politics and policy. drbarbarasumner.substack.com
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The Unnatural Family: why loving the unrelated child is framed as virtuous - and why that matters.

"She was living the contradiction, attempting to mother as if the child were her own while only distantly recognising that impossibility."

#adoption #adoptee #adopter
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