ADOPTOLOGY - Adoption Deconstructed
Dr Barbara SumnerEmpowering adopted people through knowledge.
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An Ethical Adoption?
What is adoption, really? What purpose does it serve in our society?
Your answers depend on where you stand: as a mother or father who lost a child, as an adopter, a legislator, a bureaucrat, a relative or friend affected by adoption, or a...
What if we matter to our ancestors?
The Gallows Bird is a work of historical fiction.
How does this historical fiction fit into our adoption community?
In ancestral mathematics, tracing back six generations reveals sixty-four fourth-great-grandparents. Go back twelve gener...
The Deviant Mother and Child
While researching and writing On Human Adoption, I sent Colonel Gerry Walker, the Chief Secretary of The Salvation Army New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Territory, a paper from 1993. (Yes, I was being intentionally provocative, and yes, t...
The Problem With Your Lived Experience
Last week we began to dissect the New Zealand Ministry of Justice (MoJ) adoption law reform discussion documents.
Last week we began to dissect the New Zealand Ministry of Justice (MoJ) adoption law reform discussion documents.
A New Adoption System for Aotearoa New Zealand
A Service to the Child
A note to the reader: Rather than focusing on individual adoption experiences, this essay concerns the statutory mechanisms and justifications the state uses to annex and replace a legal identity permanently, without...
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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.
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