Stop blaming the mom who sent her adopted son back to Russia, says Susan Scarf Merrell. The untold story of adoptions is that they fail a lot more often than we'd like to admit.
Susan Scarf Merrell is the author of the novel A Member of the Family, about a difficult adoption, and The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships. She is at work on a book about the early marriage of the novelist Shirley Jackson and her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman.