In his first newspaper interview, the adopted son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen talks about an atmosphere of anger and hatred in his family, the problems of transracial adoption – and his certainty that his sister was not abused by their father
Moses Farrow is talking to me, thoughtfully and carefully, about what people misunderstand about adoption. “There’s a really powerful narrative that says adoptive parents are saving these children, that they’ll all live happily ever after, and that adoptees should just be grateful for being adopted. But those narratives don’t account for the individual experiences,” he says from his home in Connecticut.
Farrow, a 42-year-old therapist, with a cowlick at the front of his hair, specialises in adoption trauma therapy, especially among children who have been adopted by parents of a different racial group, known as transracial adoption. I ask what sparked his interest in this specific area, and he laughs.
