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100 1  Easterly, Sara,|eauthor. 
245 10 Adoption unfiltered :|brevelations from adoptees, birth 
       parents, adoptive parents, and allies /|cSara Easterly, 
       Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, Lori Holden. 
264  1 Lanham :|bRowman & Littlefield Publishers,|c2024. 
300    xiii, 311 pages :|billustrations (black and white) ;|c22 
       cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
336    still image|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most 
       directly involved in adoptions: adoptees, adoptive parents,
       and birth parents. Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara 
       Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth 
       parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview 
       dozens of adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, 
       social workers, therapists, and other allies—all sharing 
       candidly about the challenges in adoption. While finding 
       common ground in the sometimes-contentious space of 
       adoption may seem like a lofty goal, it reveals the 
       authors’ optimistic aim: working together with truth and 
       transparency to move toward healing. Healing isn’t 
       possible, though, without first uncovering the 
       hurts—starting with adoption’s central players: adoptees, 
       who are so often in pain, suffering from what the latest 
       brain science validates as the long-term emotional effects
       of separation trauma. By encouraging others to vulnerably 
       share their stories, the authors discover that adoptees 
       aren’t the only ones in the adoption constellation who are
       hurting. Birth parents regularly shut down after being 
       shut out by adoptive parents. Adoptive parents often 
       struggle with unique parenting challenges and hidden 
       insecurity, feeling the need to hide the fact that they 
       are not the Super Parents they led the agency to believe 
       they would be. Across the industry as a whole, misinformed
       and even unethical practices abound. Adoption Unfiltered 
       models the importance of adults in adoption working 
       together in the spirit of curiosity and empathy—to learn 
       and do better for future generations of adoptees and their
       first and adoptive families. 
650  0 Adoption. 
650  0 Adoptees|vInterviews. 
650  0 Adoptive parents|vInterviews. 
650  7 Adoptive parents.|2fast 
650  7 Adoptees.|2fast 
650  7 Adoption.|2fast 
655  7 Interviews.|2fast 
655  7 Interviews.|2lcgft 
700 1  Vander Vliet Ranyard, Kelsey,|eauthor. 
700 1  Holden, Lori,|d1962-|eauthor.