Korean Adoptee Stories was privileged to have interviewed Glenda Coward. Glenda unfortunately has grown up in an abusive household including physical, emotional and mental abuse that she was forced to live in a group home at 14. Trying to escape that life she found herself in an abusive marriage and has suffered mental health issues. Until five years after that she was able to find herself in a healthy marriage and now has 3 children. She began a healing journey by writing a memoir of her troubled life as an adoptee called: "Adopted Kids Need Love Too." She hopes with this interview and book helps other adopted people struggling out there.
Please help publish Glenda Cowards Book: "Adopted Kids Need Love Too" by donating here: http://gofund.me/fedef189
Key Topics Covered:
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Age of Adoption
1:48 - Abusive Adoptive Family
2:19 - Adoption Story & Search
6:06 - Family Structure
8:05 - Inspiration to Write a Autobiography
9:36 - Adopted by Black Parents, Identity & Family Problems
14:01 - Experience with Group Home
15:15 - School Life
15:50 - Glenda Breaks Down & Cries
17:24 - Therapy & Psychiatry
19:47 - More Details about Childhood Abuse
21:00 - Advice for Those Struggling & Faith & Forgiveness
23:38 - Abuse with First Marriage & Healthy Second
26:47 - Mental Health & Suicidality & Faith
29:39 - Experience of Adoptive Father's Frequent Jail Time & Abuse with Switch & Ending Family Patterns
32:33 - More Details About Book Parts: Childhood & Racism
34:00 - Racism with Asian Women & Black Lives Matter
38:00 - Book Title & Chapters & More Details
39:00 - Covid-19, Food Service Job & Details about 3 Kids
40:50 - Youngest Son Lung Collapsed
44:51 - More Details about Racism in Childhood & New York
47:00 - Raising Kids Well & Racial Backgrounds
51:00 - Advice For Book Writing & Publishing
53:00 - Overcoming, Suicide, Life Advice & Faith in God
1:01:00 - Advice about Fighting Racism
1:02:00 - Dream About Creating a Retreat for Adoptees
1:02:30 - KADStories Involvement with All Adoptees
1:03:00 - Going Back to Korea
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