Are You Adopted? Tell Us About Your Experience.

For its In My Experience series, Forum wants to hear from people who are adopted -- what role has it played in your life? Your relationships? Your identity?

The In My Experience series is produced by Forum and KQED's Public Insight Network and aims to shed light on experiences often analyzed through data or debated by experts, but rarely discussed in the first person.

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How much of a role has being adopted played in your life? Do you consider it to have been a mostly positive or negative experience?

How much do you know about the circumstances of your adoption? Please share any relevant details.

Have you had contact with your birth parents? Why or why not? If yes, do you have an ongoing relationship with them?

How has being adopted shaped your identity?

And now a few questions to help us get to know you better:

What is your gender?

In what year were you born?

What race or ethnicity are you?

What is your industry or expertise? (Select more than one by holding down the CTRL key as you click.)

What political party, if any, do you identify with most closely?

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