Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype
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Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype
"The Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology features a collection of stories, poetry, and essays aimed at confronting the "perpetual child stereotype" faced by adult adoptees. The pieces contained within this anthology will implore readers to look deeply into their own ideas about what it means to be adopted and to empathize with the experience of being viewed as a child into adulthood." Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MEI-MEI AKWAI ELLERMAN... Dedication
AMANDA H.L. TRANSUE-WOOLSTON... Discovering my Imposed Age & the Effects of the Institutionalization of Perpetual Children
NICKY SA-EUN SCHILDKRAUT... Everyone Loves an Orphan
LYNN GRUBB... Mother May I?
KAREN PICKEL... The Letter
CATANA TULLY... Excerpts from Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity
LUCY SHEEN... Musings of a Transracial Adoptee
LAURA DENNIS... Question Everything, Including Adoption
JULIE STROMBERG... Let’s Pretend
LEE HERRICK... Salvation
MATTHEW SALESSES... The Powers That Beast
JENIIFER BAO YU ‘PRECIOUS JADE’ JUE-STEUCK... Swinging the Balance of the Universe: Memories, Mantras & Musings on the Mixed-Blessings of the Iconic Myth of ‘The Perpetual Child’ in Adoption
MEI-MEI AKWAI ELLERMAN... Coming Full Circle
ANGELA TUCKER...Should Adoptees be Consider a Gift?
APRIL TOPFER... Initiatory Conceptions of the Adopted Individual’s Perpetual Child along the Adoption Path