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What’s in a Name? Identity, Respect, Ownership?

On By lynellelongIn Adoptee Anger, Adoptee Names, Adoptees are not blank slates, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Listen to Adoptees, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Sense of Belonging4 Comments

ICAV members share their thoughts on Changing Names at Adoption