The Difficulties People Face When They Adopt: A Look at the Documentary “Adopted”

I just watched the documentary “Adopted” and it is quite intriguing.

The documentary shows us two sides of the same coin. One family, the Trainers, is full of joy and optimism as they embark on their journey to adopt a child from China. On the other side of the coin, we get to see Jennifer Fero, an adult Korean adoptee, and her parents as they struggle to help Jennifer come to terms with her adoption. As you can see in the documentary above, adoption isn’t easy. It’s not easy on the adoptee, and it’s not easy on the adoptive parents either. The documentary shows us that even though the Feros are good and loving parents, they just can’t fill the hole that is inside Jennifer. The only way Jennifer can fill that hole is to know about her birth parents. Unfortunately for Jennifer, the Feros don’t even know who gave birth to her as they obtained Jennifer via closed adoption.

I wrote an article about it here http://bit.ly/1ETzhut.