Author and adoptee Jean Widner joins Andrea Miller for a powerful, emotional conversation about the truth behind adoption—including identity loss, trauma, sealed records, and controversial practices like international and transracial adoption. With stories from her own life and research from her book The Adoption Paradox, Jean invites listeners to re-examine what it really means to adopt—or be adopted. Don’t forget to like this video & subscribe: youtube.com/c/tangodaily Chapters: 00:00 – Adoption isn’t what you think, Jean Widner joins 03:00 – The hidden grief of adoption 07:00 – Adoptees have higher rates of suicide, anxiety, and addiction 13:45 – Jean shares her story of finding her birth mother 25:00 – The dark side of adoption: ethics, money, and transracial controversy 31:00 – Is adoption ever trafficking? 39:00 – The missing truth adoptive families need 45:00 – How adoption shapes racial self-understanding 54:30 – It’s about us: Jean’s message to adoptees & allies...