ADOPTION SERIES | PART TWO
Renee Gelin Says Family Preservation Is Adoption Reform
But there’s no money to be made in family preservation
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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, two birth (or first) mothers, and one adoptive mother. This five-part Adoption Series will comprise segments of our interview transcripts that didn’t appear in the story.
This second interview in the series is with first mother Renee Gelin, founder of the nonprofit family preservation organization Saving Our Sisters (SOS).
KT: What were the circumstances when you — Do you prefer the language “placed your child,” “relinquished your child,” or something else?
RENEE GELIN (RG): Surrendered. I describe it as the perfect storm. A business that went bad, and I’d moved across the country, so my family was all back in the Midwest while I’m down…
