The magazine Adoptive Families (AF) is since long the go-to magazine of the powers that be in adoption. It is supported by ads from adoption agencies and other businesses in the human reproduction industry. The AF writers are professionals in the sense that they make their living in adoption, as social workers, academics, free lance writers. The focus of AF is so much on the parents and the happy mythology of adoption success, a narrative the parents (and the agencies) need to keep going and adopting, that I call the magazine in my mind Adoptive Parents. The less happy perspective of – not to confuse with stories about – first parents and the perspective of adult adoptees in the raw and unsanitized form is completely lacking.
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