The 2022 survey was a: “bottom up” anonymous Global Citizen-Lay-survey. It evolved from pro bono work two of us as adoptees in the UK did in 2021 to test whether or not (97) UK adoptees were happy with adoption experience or the opposite.

We were already aware though of child abuses inside adoption experienced by adoptees. We heard about them on Groups on Facebook. We heard this voice was being socially repressed in often socially expressed terms like: “forget the past”, or adoptees felt they were just socially invisible.

The question became for us : Is adoption a good social design of alternative child care for adoptees, or is it creating in many, forms of long lasting hurt, even a divided-self neuroses, which is socially constructed? Do some adoptees want out of adoption? Eased revocation rights after 18+?

You have to hear the voice of adoptees for that to be tested. We thought that is a bottom-up exercise of democracy because we later have to engage the systems politically for changes and argument.

What is placed above here is a link to the 2022 survey to download and those of us involved had hoped to spur later co-production with universities because there is a large number of damaged people globally who are injured by the adoption-design and its social process over years ..

We are aware too that other lay survey work has been done (2024-25 re: 600 Adoptees and 1st parents) it was not peer reviewed has been done showing up distresses and pain as problems as a large factor in adoptees :

"Dr Lynn Zubov shares that adoptees in this sample reported higher rates of mental health challenges compared to the general population. In terms of emotional distress, 82.7% of the respondents answered "yes, definitely" to the question of whether they experience pain and loss, and 55.7% reported a pervasive lack of belonging. Approximately 80% of adoptees reported using "unhealthy coping mechanisms" to manage complicated feelings."

LINK TO OUR 304 Adoptee Only Survey