ADOPTION SERIES | PART THREE
Adoption Often Doesn’t “Save” a Child but Adds Trauma to Trauma
Mila Konomos says that if you help the family, you help the child
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For a recent article I wrote about manipulative adoption industry language (“The ‘Loving Option’ Is a Lie”), I interviewed five women: two adoptees (Lina Vanegas and Mila Konomos), two birth — or first — mothers (Renee Gelin and Amy Seek), and one adoptive mother (Diana). This five-part Adoption Series will comprise segments of our interview transcripts that didn’t appear in the story.
This third interview in the series is with Mila Konomos, who was six months old when a White military couple adopted her from a Christian agency in Seoul, South Korea. Her profile on Instagram, where as @the_empress_han she offers support to adoptees while advocating to abolish adoption, reads, Adoption Survivor, Mail Order Daughter, Poet.
