The Adoption Mystique: A Hard-hitting Exposé of the Powerful Negative Social Stigma that Permeates Child Adoption in the United States

Desperation, neediness, and the powerlessness of birthparents, infertile couples and adopted persons fuel the powerful adoption monolith. Too often "adoption" and "adoptee" imply different, separate, and outside the norm. Propaganda, research, and theories fail to tell the whole story. To help readers understand the paradigm of adoption, the author explores how the fantasy that has been carefully crafted to protect adoption’s institutional image contrasts with the harsher reality experienced by those the institution was meant to serve.