Gretchen Sisson
Gretchen is a sociologist and independent researcher with work focusing on adoption, abortion, infertility, and young parenthood. Her academic work on reframing teen pregnancy prevention and adopting an approach more focused on social justice has appeared in the Journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and her nonacademic writing on reproductive health and other sociological issues has been featured on Scarleteen, Bitch, and Abortion Gang (where she blogs regularly). Gretchen works professionally at an organization serving the needs of youth and young parents, serves as a doula for expectant and new families, and volunteers at her local abortion fund. She received her doctorate in sociology from Boston College in 2011.
Adoption in the United States: Harder and More Complicated Than Most Believe But "Open" to Change
November 29, 2011 - 7:01pm (Print)
Many of the historical problems with adoption came from the desire to keep it secret, to allow adoptive families to “pass” as traditional, biologically related families. Fully embracing openness is key to our efforts to keep improving adoption and placing further distance between its dark and coercive past and its hopeful future.
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