tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29056145958791695412011-07-30T11:09:06.309-05:00Pandora's Box opened: The beginning of an adoptee's search for various truths and the opportunity for growth, change, understanding, and compassion.Wild Orchidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11168725230935908353noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905614595879169541.post-62735802927600466992009-08-21T09:46:00.002-05:002009-08-21T09:52:19.301-05:00

Abbreviated version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) This declaration stems from the understanding that childhood is entitled to special care and assistance. A child, as defined by the CRC is every human being under the age of eighteen years unless, under the applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. 1. Every child has the right to grow up in a family environment:

Wild Orchidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11168725230935908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905614595879169541.post-25147238313579346512008-08-27T21:58:00.007-05:002008-08-27T22:55:51.596-05:00

I haven't much felt like writing about adoption for the past year or so. Adoption issues, at least superficially, seem to come and go, weaving in and out of certain periods of life from foreground to background. They seem to spring up unexpectedly and then to fade away again, imperceptibly, to be dealt with again at a later time. For now, adoption has faded to the background, once again. Tragedy

Wild Orchidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11168725230935908353noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905614595879169541.post-32771161407659661742007-10-12T19:29:00.000-05:002007-10-12T21:47:24.515-05:00

Anger is not necessarily a negative thing, in itself. In fact, it can be utilized as a powerful force, fuel for change. Anger can incite movement, action, the serving of justice. That being said, Anger becomes dangerous when it is unleashed without direction - as violence - or allowed to fester inwardly, without expression - as depression.Many adoptees are angry, many adoptees are depressed. I am

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This is my answer to this blogger's post.There are so-called “angry” adoptees, ambivalent adoptees, and “happy-lucky-me” adoptees. To me, you cannot permanently label them as one or another, as oftentimes, I have found that these labels are merely phases an adoptee may (or may not) move through in his or her lifetime.I don’t agree with hatred, insults, mockery, sarcasm, etc from any side -

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For the past decade or so, I have been quietly taunted by the unshakeable sense of having permanently fallen behind the "rest of the world". Although I was labeled "gifted", possessed a myriad of trivial talents and was more or less a high-achiever (part of my adoptee perfectionism?), I was late in everything everyone else seemed to perform so naturally. I was late in dating, late in deciding

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