![]() ![]() What are the true stories, and will anyone really know what they are? Increasingly, though, adoptees and adoptive families learn the information is inaccurate, or, worse, horrifically fraudulent. US adoption agencies do gather information about why children are placed for adoption. My sense is, in any case, that most reports don’t get to the people who most deserve them: the first families. There’s a lot of anger and mistrust, among families, agencies, government workers. So much.įamilies are supposed to send updates to Ethiopia. So what happens to the first families? What sort of grief and loss counseling do adoption agencies provide to the first families? Who do the first mothers turn to when they desperately miss their children, or want to know if they are alive? Adoption agencies aren’t working there as much anymore. Fewer children are being placed from Ethiopia. I have yet to hear about US adoption agencies offering significant post-placement services to Ethiopian first mothers, in their language, with cultural competence. ![]() They often live in isolation, with their memories and sorrow. ![]() These women don’t have access to the Internet or support groups or media. Many of their mothers never hear from, or even about, their children ever again. Since 1999, about 13,000 children have been placed in the US from Ethiopia. ![]() Here is something I am working on, that I thought I’d send out to the universe today:Īmong the most marginalized people in the world are the first mothers of adopted Ethiopian children. Many of these women would not place their children for adoption were it not for abject poverty. ![]()
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