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Who deserves to be a parent?

Who deserves to be a parent?

It's Been a Minute vor 1 Jahr

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Our culture loves to celebrate adoption stories - and a lot of
state governments put millions into promoting it. But adoptees and
birth parents are opening up online about "coming out of the fog" -
a term for becoming more openly critical of adoption, or facing the
grief within their adoption stories.

November is National Adoption Month, and Brittany Luse takes a
closer look at how adoption functions in our culture by examining
the supply side of adoption - the birth parents. She's joined by
Gretchen Sisson, the author of Relinquished: the Politics of
Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood. They dive deep
into the stories told about birth parents, and how our culture
decides who deserves to be a parent.

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