Dr. Amanda Baden Shares Thoughts About Adoption with the Washington Post

Dr. Amanda Baden, Professor in the Counseling Department, was recently quoted in the Washington Post for an article about the connections between abortion and adoption.

Dr. Baden specializes in transracial adoption, multicultural counseling competence, identity and racial and ethnic issues in adoption,  and called the emotional impact of adoption “complex.” She says that adoptees are often told and feel “their adoptive parents did a wonderful thing and they rescued them.” But some can still have “really strong traumatic reactions” because of the loss of that relationship with their biological parent, she said.

“Everyone shares this common theme of loss and can feel some of the things that come with that, some of the core issues of adoption, like rejection, guilt, shame, intimacy issues,” she added.