We live in a highly media-influenced society. News channels, movies, and television are a large part of our daily lives and have a profound effect on our ideas and thoughts. Adoption has become a victim of these influences, and because drama sells it has become stigmatized. This has lead to a taboo on the subject, so interested parties are forced to rely on seemingly scripted adoption testimonials and government-issued facts and statistics, which can be unreliable. My thesis aims to dispel all the myths surrounding the topic through “subjective education”: learning vicariously through the experiences of others. Here, you can get first-hand accounts of real-life experiences: recorded, uploaded, and sent in by the person telling the story. The range of topics covers all facets of adoption: reunion fantasies and realities, meeting your adopted child for the first time, the adoption process, saying goodbye to your baby, etc so that it will involve all members of the adoption community: adoptees, birth and adoptive parents, even siblings; anyone who feels their story is important to the conversation. My aspirations for this site are that it will help a wide range of people: new birth mothers without options, prospective adoptive parents, and adoptees hoping to feel normal. It can help those who are just starting out on their own adoption journey.

For more information:

www.ad-opt-ed.com
www.facebook.com/adoptedproject
projectadopted@gmail.com