The other is sad, secret, problematic, shameful, and includes adoption. The second part involves promiscuity, abandonment, black markets, illegitimacy, and illegality. In this book I intend to look back with my current information and attempt to integrate these two disparate stories. My major thesis contends that adoption is inherently traumatic, that an adoptive family differs from a natural one, and that this trauma and these differences are better managed if they are recognized rather than repressed. This book does not endorse that tendency.
Psychological consequences follow from being adopted.
Society does not obviate these consequences by glorifying the situation. As a point of style, I chose to use the masculine pronoun in situations not gender specific. This was easier than keeping everything neutral, and i chose masculine because it fits better with my personal history. Actually, women do most of the writing, searching, and reflecting on adoption issues. That this book was written ny a male makes it reletively unique.