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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