Abstract
Understanding cultural history is essential to becoming a culturally responsive counselor. Despite adoptees’ increased risks for negative mental health outcomes, the history of adoption as a cultural and legal practice has been underemphasized in counseling scholarship. This overview of adoption practices from Ancient Babylon through the mid-1970s highlights lasting historical influences on modern adoption practice and the lingering threats to adoptees’ mental health from systemic legal and sociocultural inequities.
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