In this video podcast, Moses Farrow, the adopted son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, talks with child rights journalist Natasha Phillips (Researching Reform) about his childhood, how adoption has impacted his life including an attempted suicide, and why he believes the current practice is a form of human trafficking.
Emerging research tells us that adopted people can experience mental health difficulties and are more vulnerable to dying by suicide. Experts have also suggested that adoption is a form of psychological trauma, putting adopted people at greater risk of emotional harm.
The YouTube interview is featured in Natasha’s new “Dark Side of Adoption” podcast series, looking at the almost never-discussed effects of adoption on children.
The interview is an hour and a half long, and has not been cut, as it is the first time Moses has shared all of his thoughts about adoption in one place. We are deeply grateful to Moses for being so generous with his time and wisdom, and for sharing his personal experiences so that people struggling with their adoptions do not feel alone.
You can watch and listen to Moses here.
Links to items mentioned in the podcast and more:
- Website: Moses Farrow
- Website: Transform Adoption – free Adoption Trauma Factsheet (Moses Farrow)
- Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- Book: Adoption What You Should Know (An Orphan’s Research)
- Short Films: Side by Side project
- Research: Adoptees 4 Times More Likely to Attempt Suicide
- Research: Elsevier adoption and trauma special issue
- Group: Adoptee Rights Australia
- Article: The Baby Brokers: Inside America’s Murky Private-Adoption Industry
- Article: Commercial Surrogacy Industry Expected To Grow Tenfold By 2032
- Article: Pope Francis blasts surrogacy as “deplorable” practice that turns a child into “an object of trafficking”
- Article: What are ACES?
Researching Reform 
It’s the secrecy that is as usual the problem. Laws should be passed (and one day will be passed!) making all adoptions “open” so that parents and other relatives will know where their children are going.Those adopted should of course( when old enough to read them) be given copies of their real birth certificates and addresses of those concerned.
At the moment all this is extra secret but eventually it will I believe change for the better accompanied by fulsome amologies and assurances that “lessons have been learned”
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