Support For Adoptees Daily

Why Real, Lifelong Support for Adoptees Matters More Than Ever

When I first sat across from a young woman who had been adopted as an infant, she told me something I have never forgotten: "Everyone says I should be grateful, but no one ever asks how I actually feel." That moment stayed with me because it gets at the heart of what so many adoptees carry. Gratitude and grief are not opposites. They can live in the same person, sometimes in the same breath. Yet the people around them often only want to hear about the gratitude part. That is