The Heavy Truth Behind the Happy Ending Adoption Narrative - Jean Kelly Widner
What if thecomforting, romanticized fairy tale society tells about adoption is actuallypreventing families from healing?
Jean Kelly Widner is an award-winning author, researcher, andadvocate who is tearing down the "Hallmark movie" veneer surroundingprivate infant adoption. Adopted as an infant in 1965, Jean grew up in a homethat looked perfect on the outside but was privately fractured by an alcoholicmother and an unacknowledged emotional void. After interviewing nearly 100individuals across all sides of the adoption constellation, Jean published The Adoption Paradox to shed light on the…
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