About Transform Adoption
There are millions of people who have been impacted by adoption. While adoption becomes a more accepted way of creating and building families, it remains widely misunderstood. Moses Farrow was born in South Korea where he was taken from and placed with an American family through adoption. He started Transform Adoption using his personal experiences and professional perspective as a family therapist.
Transform Adoption is poised on the cutting edge of a new renaissance in the adoption community providing individuals, their families and organizations with deep knowledge of the adoption experience, history, cultural awareness, research, and social policy in the U.S. and across the world.
About Moses
Moses was adopted from South Korea when he was 2 years old - so he’s been told. Photo credit (right): Ralph Reutimann
In Pursuit of My Own Truth
As survivors, one of the most important questions we ask ourselves is what happened to me? What does it mean to be adopted? It’s taken years to break this down in my own origin story. It’s time to tell the truth. I was born with Cerebral Palsy. I was taken from my homeland in an international transracial adoption and grew up in the US. As an adult, I have spoken publicly on the experiences of abuse and suicide loss setting the record straight on behalf of those I grew up with who were also adopted, Asian, and disabled. You can read more about it in my blog article, A Son Speaks Out. It’s been eye-opening to learn how widespread abuse, suicide, and trauma are for people impacted by adoption around the world. Equally eye-opening has been the propaganda and brainwashing targeted at women and teenaged girls recruited for their eggs and children. Knowing this has also given me pause to consider what my mother may have experienced with the shaming, stigmatizing and coercion that many mothers have reported through the years. It breaks my heart. I encourage you to read this article and learn more about the truth of what’s been happening all these years.
“A commission set up by the South Korean government has revealed that thousands of mothers were forced to give up their children for adoption abroad.”
Moses now works as an Adoption Trauma Therapist and Educator. With 20+ years in the mental health profession, he also embodies an intersectionality of experiences that adds to his unique worldview. Having worked in family preservation alongside child protection services, as well as for an adoption agency where he provided an array of post-adoption services, he gained valuable albeit conflicting insights into the adoption industry. Moses has used his personal experiences with child abuse, suicide, trauma, disability, addiction, and minoritization to raise awareness of these issues. From the development of anti-racism campaigns, to advocacy for human rights, child abuse and suicide prevention, and protection of the Earth and all life on it, Moses continues to lead a mission-driven life. Currently he is campaigning against adoption crimes on behalf of children in care placements and their families. He was featured on an ABC affiliate as an Agent of Change. He has been a guest on numerous podcasts, contributed to numerous books, and presented at national and international conferences on issues of mental health, adoption, and human trafficking.