To explain genetic attraction someone who’s never experienced growing up without their biological family is a huge challenge, because it’s something most people take for granted. It’s an even bigger challenge if you call it by the name it usually goes by, and that’s genetic sexual attraction (because er, incest). As I’ve stipulated elsewhere on my site, I believe, in … Read More
The Rapist in the Mirror
But what of the men who were genetic fathers to these lost children? Male privilege absolved them of personal responsibility.
How do I deal with Sexual Fantasies About My Mother?
It is usually called Genetic Sexual Attraction, but I believe that it is simply ‘genetic attraction’, a hunger to connect with those who look like you.
Huffpo | 5 Hard Truths About Adoption, Adoptive Parents don’t want to Hear
Adoptees. We’re overrepresented in mental health settings, often at two-and-a-half to six times the rate of non-adopted children.
Grieving the Grandmother I Never Knew
My grandmother was the essence of respectability, sometimes sharp tongued and very much cultured. And to insiders – who knows? For I am not one of them.
Family Is What You Make It
My family was not one I was born to, it was one I made and continue to make on a daily basis. My family is a group of people who I trust and whose support I use to empower myself to grow in this world. I have relatives of course, but they are not who I consider my family.