ADOPTION IS A COMPLEX EXPERIENCE with an extensive reach, affecting adoptees and their birth/first and adoptive families, as well as others in the adoption constellation. Here, an adoptee, a birth parent, and an adoptive parent share from their lived experience, studies of attachment, academic research, and the perspectives of fifty others to model transparency and listening that leads to healing, wholeness, and true change.

SARA EASTERLY is an author of books and essays, including her multi-award-winning memoir, Searching for Mom. She is Founder of Adoptee Voices and a trained facilitator and staff member with the Neufeld Institute.

KELSEY VANDER VLIET RANVARD is a birth mother and a passionate advocate for adoption reform. She is the policy director at a nonprofit that works on private adoption policy issues and co-hosts the birth mom podcast Twisted Sisterhood.

LORI HOLDEN, adoptive parent and adoption educator, is mom to two young adults. She writes at LavenderLuz.com, is the author of the acclaimed book The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, and hosts the podcast Adoption:

The Long View.

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