Being Adopted Is Traumatic
And across racial lines? Even moreso.
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Episode Notes
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… what? Oh my god, who told you?
Adoption is a complicated thing. Raising a child who’s not related to you is challenging — and being that child, in many ways, is even harder.
And it’s all too easy for adoption, particularly a white family adopting a black or brown child, to be framed as a heroic act. The truth, as adoptees will tell you, is a lot messier.
Angela Tucker, a writer and transracial adoptee, joins us to argue that adoption is traumatic… and with the right reforms, it shouldn’t need to happen as often as it does.
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Podcast production by Maura Currie
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