![]() ![]() Out of the total group, which included adoptees and biological children, 56 had attempted suicide 47 of those were adoptees. Not lightweight stuff, and even more startling in that the mean age of the 1000 participants was about 14. It’s here in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here is a cynical but factual comment I read recently: Adoption and suicide are both permanent solutions to temporary situations.There is sobering research that says that adoptees are four times more likely to attempt suicide. They occasionally stumble, but most adoptees, like the rest of us, live out their lives without despair. A few who struggle in the night, with painful memories, gnawing fears, and desperate desires to please others, to fill gaps, to know truths, and to trust that life won’t again fall apart. ![]() Most succeed mightily in light of day, overcoming hard pasts, interweaving two distinct realities of Life Then and Life Now. He was not my son, but I see the spirit of the vibrant, living Sol Samuel in many Ethiopian and other adoptees that I know and love. He was an amazing athlete, gifted at soccer, a handsome young man with a warm smile and loads of friends. Fisseha became Sol Samuel, one of 9 children in a loving, active family. ![]() Born in Jimma, Ethiopia, in 1994, Fisseha was adopted 10 years ago by the writer Melissa Fay Greene and her husband Don Samuel. He was not my son, but I see Sol Samuel in many people that I love. ![]()
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