Tag: adoption dysfunction

• I am very good at acting normal

  Why did I not rebel, sneak out, sleep with boys, smoke, drink and do drugs? Why did I have good friends. Why did I hardly drink much. Why did I decide at the age of 11, that I would never ever smoke after seeing that black tarred slice of a smokers lung preserved in glass…

  Private Person

  March 26, 2023

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  adoptee, Adoptee emotions, adoptee family, adoptee feelings, adoptees, adoption, adoption Aotearoa, adoption dysfunction, adoption trauma, closed adoption, NZ adoption

• The sexually abused adoptee

  I wonder, if, when my Mummy left me in the care of the hospital, and ultimately the social workers who worked for The Department of Social Welfare – Government run department, who had assured her, her baby would be going to only the best of homes, she would have ever have dreamed she was actually…

  Private Person

  March 26, 2023

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  adopted families, adoptee, adoptee abuse, adoptee incest, adoptee pain, adoptee sexual abuse, adoptee support, adoption Aotearoa, adoption change, adoption crime, adoption dysfunction, adoption NZ, adoption reform, adoption trauma, incest, sexual abuse