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The podcast where black adoptees discuss their adoption experience and how they navigate their identities. We all have an internal need to know who we are as a person as our identity helps us to navigate the world and to know what unique about us. We all develop an identity but the process of navigating this journey can be more difficultg for adoptees in relation to early challenges they might have faced through their adoption.
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Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
In this episode, Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Dr Patrice Martin, an adoptee and adoptee advocate based in Tennessee.
Dr Patrice Martin shared about her origin story and the circumstances that led to her adoption, her identity growing up in a shame race adoptive family and her reunion with birth family on live television on the show Long Lost Family.
Dr Patrice Martin also talked about her advocacy work in the adoption space around media, faith and legislation.
They also discussed the controversial trend of baby boxes and the vulnerable position and lack of support for young pregnant woman.
They also talked about the role of media in portraying a positive story of adoptees and the issue around adoptive parents parading their children on social media.
Content warning: this episode deals with issue around child abandonment
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