There’s a difference between listening to and taking from. People enjoy being heard but not being depleted.
What are the unspoken rules of engagement in adoption spaces? On one hand, it’s great to have our safe spaces for adoptees only, birth parents only, adoptive parents only. Yet we also benefit from having cross-triad conversations, too. Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth parent) and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) talk about how and how not to approach each other about adoption issues and topics.
Listen in for the rules of engagement that will help make adoption spaces feel safe and those in it feel respected.
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Sara, Kelsey, and Lori reveal candid perspectives on adoption—along with those of 50 other adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, and allies—in their recent book, Adoption Unfiltered, now available by Rowman & Littlefield.