Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype

"The Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology features a collection of stories,
poetry, and essays aimed at confronting the "perpetual child stereotype" faced
by adult adoptees. The pieces contained within this anthology will implore
readers to look deeply into their own ideas about what it means to be adopted
and to empathize with the experience of being viewed as a child into
adulthood." Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MEI-MEI AKWAI ELLERMAN... Dedication

AMANDA H.L. TRANSUE-WOOLSTON... Discovering my Imposed Age & the Effects of the Institutionalization of Perpetual Children

NICKY SA-EUN SCHILDKRAUT... Everyone Loves an Orphan

LYNN GRUBB... Mother May I?

KAREN PICKEL... The Letter

CATANA TULLY... Excerpts from Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity

LUCY SHEEN... Musings of a Transracial Adoptee

LAURA DENNIS... Question Everything, Including Adoption

JULIE STROMBERG... Let’s Pretend

LEE HERRICK... Salvation

MATTHEW SALESSES... The Powers That Beast

JENIIFER BAO YU ‘PRECIOUS JADE’ JUE-STEUCK... Swinging the Balance of the Universe: Memories, Mantras & Musings on the Mixed-Blessings of the Iconic Myth of ‘The Perpetual Child’ in Adoption

MEI-MEI AKWAI ELLERMAN... Coming Full Circle

ANGELA TUCKER...Should Adoptees be Consider a Gift?

APRIL TOPFER... Initiatory Conceptions of the Adopted Individual’s Perpetual Child along the Adoption Path

Contributor Biographies