Today’s guest is the remarkable Dr. Alice Diver, law professor and outspoken adoptee advocate. Alice has written multiple journal articles and books on the topic of adoptee rights, including her latest, Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature: Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion. Alice shares some of her personal story with us, and then we dive into her work including language in adoption, where you’ll hear such gems as “surplus people” and “substitute families”. We also get to talk about how adoptees are viewed by the law in comparison with adoptive parents.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Alice Diver on LawPod: Avoiding Origin Deprivation Part 1; Avoiding Origin Deprivation Part 2; Interview with Emily Hipchen, editor of The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture all worth a listen!
Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion by Alice Diver https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46246-7
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

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