ADOPTION SERIES | PART ONE
Why Lina Vanegas Wants to Abolish Adoption
Money corrupts an industry claiming to help vulnerable kids
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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 mothers, and one adoptive mother. This Adoption Series will comprise segments of our interview transcripts that didn’t appear in the story.
The first in the series is my interview with Lina Vanegas, MSW, a trained social worker specializing in adoption trauma, mental health, suicide, and transracial and transnational displacement who uses her Instagram account @LinaLeadsWithLove to advocate for adoptees. At six weeks old, Lina was, as she would say, bought in Colombia by a White Jewish Midwestern couple who took her to America.
This interview segment has been edited for length.
