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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Living with Lies : Late Discovery Adoptee (LDA)


Woman Forgives Adoptive Parents Who Hid Her Race for 19 Years: 'Supporter'

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Life and Trends Reporter 
 
Most children take their parents' words as gospel while growing up, but Melissa Guida-Richards had more than a few reasons to question what her parents told her.
The 31-year-old's life went through a seismic shift after she discovered at the age of 19 that she had been adopted from Bogotá, Colombia.  Her Italian-Portuguese parents, who are based in the U.S., had always kept Guida-Richards' adoption story hidden from her.  For nearly two decades, she lived under the assumption that she was biologically related to her parents, who had chosen to raise her in a "colorblind" environment, in which she was oblivious to her true ethnic heritage.
 
"Love is not enough in adoption. Children need support and resources," Guida-Richards said, warning about emotional issues if the latter is not provided. "When you take a child and place them in a family of another ethnicity, the parents need to incorporate that child's birth culture and hygiene needs, like hair care, and provide racial mirrors of people that look like them."
 

"Like many adoptees of color, I was raised by a white American family," Guida-Richards, who went on to publish a book about her experience, told Newsweek. "I grew up in the middle-class suburbs of New York and was very sheltered.

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  1. my name is Hawk Olivera my family or tribe were all killed in 1967 all because my relative would not sign over his land Califorina he was 153 years old in 1967 he was the last full blooded Chumash Chief that was handed down the land from his father being first born son generation after generation dating back to 15,000 bc as proven by the coastal cave paintings that were found. My direct family or tribe have always been the chiefs of the chumash tribe something they dont teav
    ch you in school.I came out of my comma the only one to live and all of my rights were taken from me and my name was changed to Santos Vidal Rea after my 2 cousin who took me into his home at the age of 4 years old and raised me as his son.

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