Why we avoid the press

A journalist called me. She wanted to do interviews with adoptees and asked me if I could name her some of them.

I can understand her well. Having worked for the radio myself, I know how difficult it can be to get interview-partners.

But when it comes to adoption, it's particularly difficult. Because what does the journalist ask of her interview-partner? To talk about the wound of his life - and to give up control over how the quotes are used and who reads or hears it.

The journalist expects her interview partner (without knowing it herself) to admit that he wasn't good enough for his own mother and/or that he came from a desolate family background.

You know what? I'm amazed that I'm now going public myself (but that's another story)!

And I can understand any of us who doesn't want that. And if so, then only anonymously.

By the way: I'm also looking for interview-partners. For this portal. So if you want to tell me your story, get in touch here! I look forward to talking to you!