ADOPTOLOGY - Adoption Deconstructed
Dr Barbara Sumner, Sarah Wilshaw-Sparkes, Sue WheelerEmpowering adopted people through knowledge.
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I am an adoption educator working at the intersection of doctoral scholarship and lived experience. I examine the hidden architecture, cultural fictions and political machinery that shape adoption and identity.
Sarah Wilshaw-Sparkes is the founder and lead genetic genealogist at Names Unknown. She identifies unknown family using DNA aided by traditional research. Her specialty is identifying bio-fathers and finding the truth when your DNA “makes no sense”
I’m a UK Historical Forced Adoption survivor and extremely proud of my kids and grandkids. I do pet portraits for an animal charity and am learning how to write in the hope my idea for a book about adoption might make it into reality one day.
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