Estranged? | Adoption Illusions and Stockholm Syndrome

Estrangement is a very common outcome of adoption and fostering. We all deserve to be safe and respect our mental, physical, emotional and psychological health and many times estrangement is the only option. #adopteetwitter #adopteevoices #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth pic.twitter.com/6MCHsEEVe4

— Lina Vanegas (She/her) (@LinaLeadsWLove) May 18, 2023

 

I'm a member of several online adoptee-only support groups, and it's astonishing how many of us are estranged from our adoptive families. #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeTwitter https://t.co/ZAL6HMDXXS

— Jill Daviau 😷 (@neithskye) May 19, 2023

 

👇AN OLD POST from 2014/2021

Adoption Illusions and Stockholm Syndrome

By Trace - BLOG EDITOR

 

"...I’ve been thinking about this concept for a long time. Adopters,
when it comes right down to it, count on Stockholm Syndrome. Children
who don’t succumb are labelled RAD.

Whenever I encounter an
infertile woman so desperate to be a mother that she’ll bring home a
stranger’s baby and force it to live in her fantasy, I always secretly
wonder what she would do if she were single and desperate to be
married.

Would she drag some strange man home and force him to
watch the Notebook and cuddle? And if she did, would society think it
was beautiful and precious?  Or would they think she was delusional and
dangerous?  Rhetorical question, of course.  But why? Why is what is
clearly a crime between adults viewed in such an overwhelmingly positive
way when one of the parties is a child?..."  - Renee Musgrove 

 

This comment by Renee has been in my head for over a year and I finally did research on Stockholm Syndrome! KEEP READING