# @yourtango on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=rPG9jM3sV_o
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30717262-yourtango-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/9f3a0422c1.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-05-20T19:00:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** YourTango (@yourtango) — https://gondola.cc/yourtango

## Caption

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: 
https://www.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

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“Getting Open w/ Andrea Miller” is a new podcast aimed at helping people truly open up to one another and to themselves by digging into hard truths and varying perspectives. We offer expert-approved relationship advice to help you grow emotionally through sharing compelling stories, vulnerable discussions, and personal insights we hope will spark inspiration. 

Subscribe to YourTango’s Youtube channel to make sure you catch new episodes of “Getting Open with Andrea Miller” Tuesdays at 3 PM ET. You can also listen anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts.

Listen on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7fFUVNB4cA91iWIvbPXee0?si=7ff5b8283d2d4784

For all of our amazing articles and more, visit our website:
https://www.YourTango.com

Do you have a relationship issue or topic you’d like to discuss?
Would you be interested in talking to our audience? 
Email us at gettingopen@yourtango.com

#adoptionawareness #adopteevoices #adoption 

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- **Likes:** 37
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## Tags

adoptionawareness, adoption, adopteevoices

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