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"This book is a 'must read' for                   
 every mother who lost her
                        precious infant to adoption."

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 Joe Soll 조살, the author of Adoption Healing... a path to recovery (one for adoptees and one for mothers who lost children to adoption and one for both) and co-author of Evil Exchange and Fatal Flight is a diplomate psychotherapist and lecturer internationally recognized as an expert in adoption related issues and a former adjunct professor of social work at Fordham University Graduate School. He is director and co-founder of Adoption Crossroads in New York City, a non-profit organization that helps reunite and gives support to adoptees, original parents and those who have adopted.
 

Adoption Crossroads is affiliated with more than 450 mental health institutions and adoption search and support groups in eight countries, representing more than 500,000 individuals whose lives have been affected by adoption.  Adoption Crossroads is also dedicated to educating the public about adoption issues, preserving families and reforming current adoption practices.

    The direc
Joetor and founder of the Adoption Counseling Center in New York City, Mr.  Soll is also co-organizer and co-chair of the New York State Adoption Agency Task Force; a member of Matilda Cuomo's 1993 Advisory Council on the “Adoption Option”; conference chair and board member of the American Adoption Congress and a trustee of the International Soundex Reunion Registry. He's a fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the American Association of Grief Counselors, and a member of the Council on Social Work Education, the National Association of Social Workers and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences .

    Since 1989, Mr. Soll has organized and coordinated ten international mental health conferences on adoption attended by mental health professionals.  He has been an expert witness in court about adoption related issues and has lectured widely at adoption agencies, social work schools, mental health facilities and mental health conferences in the U.S. and Canada. 

    Mr. Soll has appeared on radio and television more than 300 times, given more than 130 lectures on adoption related issues and has been featured or quoted in more than three dozen newspapers, books and magazines.  He played himself in the HBO original movie Reno Finds Her Mom. He was featured in the 2001 Telly Award winning Global Japan documentary, “Adoption Therapist: Joe Soll" and in the MediaStorm 2011 documentary "Broken Lines" as well as profiled in the International Museum of Women.

     His own story as an adoptee has been presented more than thirty times on Unsolved Mysteries.  He has walked the 250 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C. six times to create public awareness of the need for adoption reform.  He resides in Congers, NY and maintains an office in New York City.

    

Email:  joesoll@adoptionhealing.com

   
Karen
     Karen Wilson Buterbaugh  is one of seven exiled mothers whose personal experience of surrender during the “baby scoop era” of the 1960s  was audio taped for Everlasting,” a multimedia sound and video installation by artist Ann Fessler.  The stories collected for this exhibition, which showcased  the voices of mothers of loss from  the1950s and 1960's, will become part of the women's oral history collection at Harvard University's Schlesinger
Library.

 
        In 1966, Karen was first interred in two "wage homes" with strangers, ironically without wages, before being deposited as an “inmate” at the Florence Crittenton maternity facility in Washington D.C.  She completed her senior year at the facility before giving birth to her daughter, Michelle Renee, at George Washington Hospital, Washington, D.C., in July 1966.  Both were returned to the maternity facility and then separated on August 1, 1966, after she and her baby had spent ten days together in the facility’s post-partum  wing.
 
    Thirty years later, she hired an investigative agency to locate her daughter, now named Maria. Contact was made by phone through a friend in January 1997. Their in person reunion took place in February 1998.
 
    Karen has been writing about adoption since 1997 and is the author of two articles, “Setting the Record Straight,” published by Moxie Magazine (April 2001), and “Not By Choice,” published by Eclectica  Magazine  (January 2002).*
 
    Her personal story of adoption surrender, "Relative Strangers: A  Mother's Experience of Adoption Loss" is scheduled for publication in 2004.
 

    Karen is a co-founder of OriginsUSA ,a founding member of Mothers Exploited By Adoption and a co-founder of Mothers for Open Records Everywhere
 
    Karen is married and lives in Virginia. She has three grown daughters. Her oldest, Michelle Renee, was the baby she lost to adoption.

 
*To request a copy, email:
 karenwb@erols.com

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