This chapter focuses on the challenges parents face and how it can affect their children. The speaker reflects on Gay Talise's perspective on being adopted and encourages parents to be understanding and considerate of their children's experiences and emotions.
It’s not easy for lots of reasons. Gay Talese, who knew the Didion family (who we’ve been talking about a lot recently), speculates in Evelyn McDonnell’s biography of Joan Didion (signed copies here) what it must have been like to be Quintana Roo, their adopted daughter.