MIRANDA BARKER, ADOPTION-INFORMED THERAPIST, ADOPTIVE SIBLING, ADOPTIVE PARENT!

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Miranda Barker, MSW LICSW, is an adoptive parent, an adoptive sibling, and a therapist. She has experienced working as an expectant parent counselor, child protection investigator and now as a therapist specializing in seeing clients that are part of the adoption constellation. She is a soon-to-be graduate of the PACC fellowship (Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate) and is the host of the Therapist Thrival Guide podcast, a resource for new growing therapists.
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[@maryannscott5567]

It is disheartening to hear someone with so much experience and knowledge of relinquishment, adoption trauma and the child "welfare" system still choose to be part of the problem and take advantage of the supply sold by the adoption industry. Perhaps her lack of a thoughtful response to the question "why did YOU choose to adopt?" stems from her own unrecognized trauma of being raised with adopted siblings by parents who modeled "white savior" entitlement as a family norm. As a natural mother coerced to relinquish a child, this episode was a really hard listen.

[@MindYourOwnKarma]

I know some of these episodes can be tough to listen to so thank you for still listening and telling your opinion and truth as well. If we can identify where the breakdowns are in the system and society in general then maybe we can start striving for the changes that we want to see, and even that can be difficult when we all have such vast ideas on what that would look like due to our lived experiences.

[@maryannscott5567]

@@MindYourOwnKarma The "system" is an industry based on demand and supply, with human beings being the commodity for sale.

[@maryannscott5567]

@MindYourOwnKarma It's not that complicated if the "system" is recognized as an industry of demand and supply, with human beings being the product for sale.