Thanks for visiting. My forthcoming memoir examining American adoption will be available for purchase in early 2018. Please bookmark this website and come back for regular updates. You can also sign up for my newsletter and follow my blog to read my articles on adoption, adoptee rights, and other news related to the larger story of adoption. My writing includes stories examining the history and the health and public health impacts of being born adopted and illegitimate.
Contacting Rudy Owens:
Visit the Contact Rudy page on theYou Don’t Know How Lucky You Are Don website.
Mission Statement:
I am an adoptee who proudly owns his birth heritage as a bastard and a life-long advocate for the full civil and legal rights for all adoptees in the United States. My personal story about discovering my biological identity as an adoptee ultimately offers a deeper meditation on finding meaning from one of life’s most profound experiences. By asking life’s most essential question, “Who am I,” and telling my adoptee’s journey of discovery, my writing sheds light on how adoption profoundly impacted the lives of millions of Americans. It is an experience shaped by historic prejudice, legal discrimination, and outcomes best understood as a public health issue. Ultimately, my story on finding myself and challenging authorities who control critical identity records for millions of Americans who were adopted is as old and as powerful as that Moses—an abandoned baby, famed prophet, and universally known adoptee.
What’s Inside:
See my summary of each chapter as well as excerpts from the opening pages of the chapters of You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are.