Colin Cadier at The Hague Special Commission

On July 5, 2022August 20, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, France, Hague Special Commission, Lived experience leadershipLeave a comment

Colin Cadier's speech at the Hague Special Commission 2022, Day 1, Session 1, Voices of Adoptees Panel

Adoptees at the Hague Special Commission

On July 1, 2022August 20, 2024 By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Family Preservation, Hague Special Commission, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Lived experience leadership, Peer Support, Politics of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Transracial AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle shares the history of adoptee led organisation involvement at the Hague Special Commission meetings and the importance of adoptee voices being included.

Lived Experience of Racism in Transracial Intercountry Adoption

On May 25, 2022January 23, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Antiracism Education, Beauty in Diversity, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Gratitude in Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption1 Comment

ICAVs panel webinar on the Lived Experience of Racism in Transracial Intercountry Adoption.

Participating in The Colour of Difference: Long Term Outcomes

On April 6, 2022February 2, 2024 By lynellelongIn Abandonment and Rejection, Abuse in Adoption, Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee Anger, Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Birthdays, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Book, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Eating Disorder and Adoption, Gratitude in Adoption, Grief and Loss, ICAV Beginnings, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Origins Search, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Suicide, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle shares how participating in PARCs book project to produce The Colour of Difference changed her life and began the adoptee network InterCountry Adoptee Voices.

Peruvian Adoptee Returns to Birth Country

On January 28, 2021April 24, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Key Themes in Search and Reunion, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Peru, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, UKLeave a comment

Milagros Forrester shares with ICAV about her return trips to Peru and how it impacted her search for identity and belonging.

Identity, Lost & Found

On November 29, 2019July 27, 2025 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive parents, Beauty in Diversity, Colombia, colourblindness in adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Family Preservation, Gratitude in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Peer Support, Post Adoption Support, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA2 Comments

Abby reflects on reclaiming her Latina identity after growing up in a white Jewish family, highlighting the impact of adoption practices on self-worth and cultural connection.

Celebrating Secrets and Sadness

On August 16, 2019May 12, 2024 By julietteviaIn Adoptee Birthdays, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Malaysia, Not Knowing in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, UK2 Comments

Adoptee birthdays are a day of celebrating secrets and sadness, a complex day of emotions reminding us we are not with the ones who birthed us.

Leadership in the Intercountry Adoptee Community

On July 7, 2019July 27, 2025 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, Adoption policy, adoption reform, Birth Country, Colombia, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Empathy in leadership, Family Preservation, Lived experience leadership, Post Adoption Support, Transracial Adoption, Trauma informed leadership, USALeave a comment

Abby Abby explores servant leadership in the intercountry transracial adoptee community, emphasizing empathy, healing, and empowerment in shaping adoption practices.