November 26th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Experts often stress the importance of adoptive families connecting with one another, creating communities based on shared experiences and understanding. But that remains important for adoptees even as they enter adulthood. Bethany Fraser is an adoptee who in adulthood found community with other adoptees through the Barker Foundation, connecting her with people who share her experiences…

   

"It doesn’t matter the age, gender or the ethnicity. Every single adopted person that I meet, I feel like we’re almost kind of connected through this life experience sort of starting in the same place: at some point, we were relinquished or something happened where we became somebody else’s child."