Dr Barbara Sumner

If you read this week’s column on the invisibility of adopted people in data, here's a handy chart drbarbarasumner.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

How to be Invisible The high-stakes social experiment we call adoption.

A new column is up now on Substack. Free to subscribe. Paid subscribers also get all the footnotes and research. All subscribers receive the full article. drbarbarasumner.substack.com/p/how-to-be-... 🥚
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p.s.I'm also trialling an audio version of the column, which is recorded in my wardrobe.

this is why I write, this is why I committed three hard years to gain a PhD in the structures and functions of human adoption.

Adoption Deconstructed | Dr Barbara Sumner | Substack Empowering adopted people through knowledge. Click to read Adoption Deconstructed, by Dr Barbara Sumner, a Substack publication.

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Multiple layers of anger and aggression circulate within the adoptive family. 🥚
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Your research and paper were groundbreaking!!!

I 100% agree with Tony @notalegalrecord.net
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"Conducting experimental studies on humans and exposing humans to the considered risk factor of maternal separation is not possible as it disagrees with the principles of research ethics.”
Unless you call it adoption.
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Out now: drbarbarasumner.substack.com/p/maternal-

The Illusion of Kinship No rights. No lineage. No return.

A short, extra essay on inheritance laws, adoption and the blended family. drbarbarasumner.substack.com/p/the-illusi...
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A short piece about inheritance law in Aotearoa New Zealand. Available 8 am tomorrow morning (20th April NZ time). #adoptees 🥚

An essay coming up on inheritance laws and adoption. Subscribe here to receive an email notification: drbarbarasumner.substack.com
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Now that's a tough question...

Gill Roberts on Adoption Deconstructed Bethany Grey Lynn - my mother cared for me for 10 days. She knew I had been 'allocated'. What that meant was at some stage she would come from the work room to feed me and I would be gone. Time and...

The Darling Man Syndrome
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This is why I love writing for Substack. 🥚
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Kristina on Adoption Deconstructed Really looking forward to digging in to this but also want to say - a different perspective - she did it for him - he wanted a son - she wanted not to adopt / they “settled” on me! And she tried to k...

The Darling Man Syndrome drbarbarasumner.substack.com/p/the-darlin...

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Kristina on Adoptology This! This is what I keep trying to explain. It is NOT our fault they didn’t love us. In fact based on the psychology of the entire thing, it’s a miracle that more of us aren’t tortured and killed ...

The Unnatural Family

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Why do we still think taking an unrelated child and pretending it is your own is the same as having your own? Why does society continue to act as if the adoptological family is synonymous with the biological?

I love that. So perfectly true

Yes please, very much like to be added.

What readers are saying. #adoptees 🥚
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I find it emotionally beautiful; we are perfectly formed like an egg.

thank you. why the egg?

I feel that so keenly. The public social narrative is so well entrenched, and we are so often siloed from each other by the cones of since the cover every adopted person.

it feels like a privilege to be here.

i do have rather a lot to say.🥚

The Unnatural Family Why loving the unrelated child is framed as virtuous - and why that matters.

Our oh so unnatural families. Always up for a chat about the structures, functions and purpose of human adoption. #adoptology #adoptees 🥚

Hi Tony, I used to follow your fine work over on the other site. Would you be able to add me to the Adoptees of Blue Sky list so I'll see and be seen by BSKY #adoptees - 🥚

thank you

Zero data. Zero acknowledgement of any difference between the adoptological and biological family.

I'm always keen to talk about adoption politics and policy. drbarbarasumner.substack.com
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