On Monday, we posted about the Evan B. Donaldson report about the increase in the use of the internet and social media in adoptions. To highlight some of the personal stories about how the internet and social media have played a role in the lives of adopted individuals, adoptive parents and first/birth parents, here are some links to stories that came out over the past week.
National Public Radio – the story “Finding a child online: How the web is transforming adoption” features a couple who created their own website along with a “Letter to the Birth Parent” in an attempt to “market” themselves to a potential birth parent.
The New York Times begins its story with the ways that birth parents and adoptees have used the internet to find and connect with each other. In “Internet use in adoption cuts 2 ways, report says,” the focus is more on the ways adoptees and birth/first famlies are using social media sites to search and make contact.
