'Experts', professionals and adoptive parents are the ones who are telling KADs what 'the adoption experience' is actually like.
A number of social workers and councilors have 'specialized' in adoption in their careers. A lot of funding, prestige and power is entangled in this creation of 'adoption professionals,' and they have long been the ones setting the stage in which adoption policy and evaluation is being promoted, and how it is framed.
Appropriation is when inside a situation of existing power-differences, someone else speaks for, tells, defines, describes, represents, uses the images, stories, or experiences of others to benefit themselves, or when someone else becomes the expert on someone else's experiences and is deemed more knowledgeable about who they are than themselves. Inside the KAD community, individual and common experiences with 'adoption experts' are often referred to as 'KADproriation'.
The dominant ideology of current 'adoption professionals' is the notion of providing loving homes for needy children without limitations of national boundaries, race, or religion, in other words, the rescue of poor, starving children in 'the third world' by affluent middle-class white couples in 'the first world' who can give them opportunities of education and a 'good' life.
Those adult adoptees who question this notion, is often portrayed as being maladjusted or having personal problems, meaning that the questionable sides of adoption are taken out of the larger context and is being reduced to individual, personal issues.
This creates a social reproduction and reinforcement of already existing power-differences and hegemony inside the adoption community, something frequently being used and highlighted by adoption promoters in their social marketing strategies.
In the 'professional' debate, adoptee voices are often being reduced to individual, personal experiences, which then can be evaluated and discussed by the 'experts.'