Anne Bauer

Guest Blog: An Adoptee Reviews “The Sound of Hope: A True Story of an Adoptee’s Quest for her Origins”

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 09:15

Our Guestblogger is Marjorie Shaw, an adoptee in a closed domestic adoption. You can read Marjorie's novel in chapters on our website each Monday and Friday.

“Someday, I’m going to write a book about all of this. This way, I don’t have to keep explaining over and over how an adopted person feels their entire life living with secrets and no information about where they came from,” quotes Anne Bauer from her memoir “The Sound of Hope: A True Story of an Adoptee’s Quest for Her Origins.”

Anne is an adoptee from a closed adoption in the 60’s. Her search for her natural mother leads the reader deep into the complicated and chaotic world of her adoptive family and their reaction to truths she was never supposed to address. She writes so well about the accepting and rejecting reactions of her two mothers, her adoptive family members and her dilemma as the adoptee who is put in the middle when she reveals to her adoptive mother and father that she has found her natural mother. It is so refreshing to hear the strength and conviction she possesses as she fights to create sanity in her world by getting them to realize that they need to all come together for her sake and leave their jealousy behind!

Three Steps To Help Adoptees

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 16:08

Anne BauerToday's guest blogger is Anne Bauer, an advocate for all adoptees in America. She has written a memoir, "The Sound of Hope: Living in the Closed Adoption System", which chronicles her life growing up without any information about her roots and how she searched and found her birthmother against a wall of opposition from her family and society. Please visit her Web site to read excerpts from her upcoming memoir.

Uniting children and childless couples for the purpose of creating families is the ultimate goal of adoption. Both parties are meant to benefit, the childless couple who yearns for a child of their own, gets the opportunity to be a parent, and the child, who doesn’t have any family members willing or able to raise them, is given a family in which to be a part. However, as an adoptee who grew up in the closed adoption system in America, I know that the emotional interests of the adopted child are not always given priority.