IDENTICAL TWINS ADOPTED TOGETHER - AUTHOR JULIE McGUE SHARES HER STORY

Julie Ryan McGue is an American writer, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. In her books, essays, and blogs, she explores the topics of finding out who you are, where you belong, and making sense of it.
Her award-winning memoir, Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging, was released in May of 2021. Her work has appeared in multiple journals, anthologies, and online sites, such as the Story Circle Network Journal, Brevity Nonfiction Blog, and Severance Magazine. Her latest book, a collection of essays titled Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship released in November of 2023. Her third book, another memoir and a prequel to Twice a Daughter, releases in February of 2025. Julie splits her time between northwest Indiana and Sarasota, Florida.
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[@maryannscott5567]

Going through the trauma of losing a child to adoption deeply changes a woman forever, not in a good way. So the mother you find when you search will not be the mother she would have been if she'd kept and raised you.

[@maryannscott5567]

This was great but has gross misinformation about "open" adoption. NOTHING is legally different for any party - the adoptee, the birth parents and adopters. Even if both birth and adoptive parents agree to some arrangement of continuing contact, it is not legally enforceable AND only 2%-5% of such agreements for continued contact are still in practice after the child is 5yo. Adoptive parents stop contact, disappear, etc. And there's nothing the birth family can do to reestablish contact. The child is still so young when contact is ended the adopters can tell them untruths about the birth parents and won't be questioned and the lies continue.

[@MindYourOwnKarma]

I have heard this from others first parents as well. I have an adoptive parent coming up on the show that also has an open adoption. Her daughter is still a toddler. She does talk about the contract some in the episode and it sounded like the visitation stipulations for the BM were all spelled out. IDK if things are changing in that regard or not.