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NVR: an adoptee’s account

Children are not abusers. Adopters are trapped not by their acquired property, but by their own fear of failure, and fear of shattering their family fantasy beyond repair.

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The use of ‘nonviolent resistance’ in adoption circles

A couple of years ago I came across classes for adopters on nonviolent resistance (NVR). At first I wondered “what are they protesting?” I was horrified to find out that the term was being used in relation to parenting adopted children.  The idea of nonviolent resistance was first used by Gandhi and was adopted by […]