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Why do adoptees cut off contact???????????

November 27, 2012 · by Daniel Ibn Zayd | in Adoptee Roundtable | tagged angry adoptees, bitter adoptees, family, gratitude, parents, sad adoptees | 9 Comments

This question (superfluous punctuation included) was in our hits based on search phrases. I thought it made for a good question: Why do adoptees cut off contact??????????? [Interpret as you wish.]

And why not suicide?

May 20, 2012 · by Daniel Ibn Zayd | in Adoptee Roundtable | tagged depression, morbidity, sad adoptees, suicide | 6 Comments

Ben Harper, in Fly One Time, sings: Inevitability It’s pounding at my door screaming for more In a world that owes you nothing you give everything, everything And now I’m caught in between What I can’t leave behind and what I may never find So fly one time Fly one time Depending on my mood, […]

Since everyone is so sad, should I just not adopt?

September 1, 2010 · by girl4708 | in Transracial Adoption | tagged infertility, missionarism, sad adoptees, savior complex | 3 Comments

I can’t have children and have never wanted to have my own children. I have always wanted to save a child from a bad country where they would not have a good life. Why is that so bad? Would the people out there who were adopted prefer to have lived a bad life? Just curious […]

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