Another blogger’s thoughts on international adoption and reunion

Elizabeth Foy Larsen’s Sunday Modern Love column in the New York Times, “Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands,” continues to stir comment and debate among natural mothers, adoptees and adoptive parents.

There is, after all, a heaping measure of confusion, frustration, pain and other conflicting emotions for everyone involved in adoption.

In “Quest for true understanding about the pain associated with adoption,” the response I wrote on Sunday, I imagined Lorraine Dusky hard at work on a blog post for her (Birth Mother) First Mother Forum. I wasn’t disappointed. Lorraine’s response is here.

As always, Lorraine pulls no punches. Have a look.