The often cited finding that adopted people are four times likelier to commit suicide than non-adopted people is probably an underestimate. We need more research, which is not helped by lack of information on adoptees as a demographic category, since #adoption is legally designed to erase itself.

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For @flaminghydra.com's New England week, I wrote about what it was like to research what Portsmouth, NH and Boston, MA were like in the 1960s without being able to actually go there, and how it reaffirmed for me that there is still magic in this here old internet: flaminghydra.com/a-faraway-pl...

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This is exciting! books.washingtonmonthly.com

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It's Adoptee Remembrance Day, observed before the start of the #adoption industry's National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM) in November. We "remember adoptees whose lives ended too soon and ... bring visibility to the realities within adoption that are too often ignored, minimized, or forgotten."

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