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Severance Magazine A magazine about separation from biological family for adoptees, NPEs, donor-conceived individuals and other genetic identity seekers
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An essay for the day before election day, by Monica Stoffal.
04/11/2024

An essay for the day before election day, by Monica Stoffal.

While politicians debate the issue of abortion for a pregnancy resulting from incest, a birthmother shows that politics is personal, and adoption isn't a panacea.

04/11/2024

A transracial adoptee from Fuzhou, China writes a letter to the biological mother she's never known.

17/10/2024

What does it feel like to meet your birthmother for the first time? Domestic Baby Scoop Era adoptee Dawn Packard writes about the moment she waited 53 years for.

An important call to action to save the lives of foster children and adoptees.
22/09/2024

An important call to action to save the lives of foster children and adoptees.

Foster children and adoptees are vulnerable to victimization by a system that fails to safeguard their lives.

https://www.watersheddna.com/blog/fair-360-research-study-announcement
24/08/2024

https://www.watersheddna.com/blog/fair-360-research-study-announcement

Researchers at University of Southern California’s School of Social Work) are enrolling multiple individuals in a family impacted by direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA testing unexpected DNA paternity results. Researchers request the person most closely impacted by a DNA discovery (the parent or adult c...

Check out this article on psychedelic-assisted therapy by Amy Ebbeson.
22/08/2024

Check out this article on psychedelic-assisted therapy by Amy Ebbeson.

By Amy Ebbeson, LCSW Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been misled about their parentage and origins. This is a foundational story in Christianity. And even in a galaxy far, far away. In Star Wars, Darth Vader’s declaration, “Luke, I am your father,” is probably the most quo...

22/08/2024

Melissa Guida-Richards learned by accident that she had been adopted from Colombia.

Our review of an NPE memoir by Gina Cameron.
15/08/2024

Our review of an NPE memoir by Gina Cameron.

Who’s My Daddy? Exposing the Roots of Family Secrets, is Gina Cameron’s memoir of a journey to find her roots, her identity, her father, and herself.

21/07/2024

Big, big, big thanks to Hiraeth Hope & Healing, which made Severance the recipient of one of the donations it makes at its amazing retreats. It's one of the many ways Erin Marie, Cindy Olson McQuay, and Annie Persico work together to help the community. I appreciate their ongoing support and all they do for NPEs, DCPs, and adoptees.

30/05/2024

From one NPE to the others, a message of unity and community.

A new essay, by David B. Bohl
06/05/2024

A new essay, by David B. Bohl

A misattributed parentage experience (MPE) is the gift that keeps on giving.

30/04/2024

At first she resisted a writing group assignment — she simply didn't want to do it. Here's what happened when she relented.

28/03/2024

An excerpt from Childless Mother: A Search for Son and Self, the author's story of her pre-Internet search for the son she was forced to relinquish when she was fourteen.

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Severance is a magazine and community for people who’ve been separated from biological family.


  • It’s for conversations about what it feels like to have no genetic connection to the families we grew up with, whether due to situations such as adoption, abandonment, donor-conception, or an NPE (Non-parental event or parent not expected). It’s about adjusting to shifting realities or living with the unknown.