Estrangement Resources
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Harlows Monkey by Dr. Jae Ran Kim
Adoptees On: Estrangement Series podcast hosted by Haley Radke
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“9 People on How They Deal With Being Estranged From a Family Member” by Sharon McDonnell
“Adoption Status and Family Relationships During the Transition to Young Adulthood” (Academic report)
“A Shift in American Values is Fueling Estrangement” by Joshua Coleman
Dear Adoptive Parents: The Burden of Adoptee Loyalty By Mila Konomos
Estrangement: The Silent Epidemic (Psychology Today)
Finding the Right Therapy as an Adoptee by Lynelle Long, ICAV
“Here’s Why Adoptees Seem Angry—And What We Talk About When We Talk About Loss” by Sunny Reed
“Hidden Voices: Family Estrangement in Adulthood”
“I Love My Adoptive Family But Not Adoption” by Angela Barra
“Living in Adoption’s Emotional Aftermath” By Larissa MacFarquhar
“One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent” by Daniel de Visé
“Parent-Adult Child Estrangement in the United States by Gender, Race/ethnicity, and Sexuality” (Academic report)
“Statistics That Tell the Story of Family Estrangement” (Psychology Today)
“The alienation of adoption” World of Work Report (British)
“The Words Every Adult Child Needs to Hear” (Psychology Today)
“What is Family Estrangement?” by Susan Adcox
"What is family estrangement? A relationship expert describes the problem and research agenda" by Kristina Scharp
“What is it about grief, loss and adult adoptees?” by Jennifer Griesbach, MSW
“What’s Ripping American Families Apart?” by David Brooks
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Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney
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Return to Seoul (2022)
aka SEOUL: A Korean Adoptee Story (2016, 7 part series on YouTube)
‘We’re Asians, Gay & Proud’: The story behind the photo (2018)
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Canción sin nombre (2019)
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Adoption Mosaic Resources
Estrangement in Adoption: Preventing, Accepting, Healing (Presented at KAAN 2024)