Category: Adoption Agencies

There Isn’t An Orphan Crisis, It’s a Family Separation Crisis

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Jessica shares on what is happening in intercountry adoption today.

The Blame Game

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Jessica Davis questions intercountry adoption practices that support making it faster, quicker to adopt a child.

Adoptee Activism in America

On By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA2 Comments

Lynelle shares about the importance of including adoptee lived experience at the Adoption Symposium for the US Department of State in 2020.

Adoption: Neat & Tidy? Not So Much!

On By Guest BloggerIn adoption accountability, Adoption Agencies, adoption and power imbalance, adoption conversations, Adoption policy, adoption reform, adoption reversal, adoptive family dialogue, adoptive parent reflection, adoptive parent responsibility, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Family Preservation, human rights abuses in adoption, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Justice Routes, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Reparation in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?6 Comments

Jessica Davis shares the complexities of intercountry adoption gone wrong.

Citizenship should be guaranteed in Intercountry Adoption

On By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee Activism, Adoptee Anger, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Citizenship in Adoption, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Citizenship in America is not granted to all intercountry adoptees. This paper explores the topic critically from those with lived experience.

Trauma of Transition for Older Aged Adoptees

On By lynellelongIn Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption1 Comment

Older age adoptees struggle to transition from their first life to their second. What can be done to reduce the trauma of transition in older age adoptions?

Twins separated by Adoption

On By lynellelongIn Adoption Agencies, Adoption Documentary, Alternatives to Adoption, Birth family trauma, Birth Parents Searching, China, China, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, DNA Searching, Family Preservation, Forced separation, Gratitude in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Illegal Adoption, Illicit 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, Post Adoption Support, Reparation in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, UN Joint Statement Illegal Adoption, USA, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?6 Comments

Lynelle writes critically about the intercountry adoption processes that knowingly separate biological twins.

When is adoption NOT in the best interests of the child?

On By lynellelongIn Abuse in Adoption, Adoptee Birthdays, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Agencies, Adoptive parents, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Forced separation, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Politics of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, Twins in adoption, Unique adoptions, USA, VietnamLeave a comment

Where are the rights of adoptees when they are legally "de-twinned" by their adoptive parents? How is this in the "best interests of the child"?

Memories and Feelings of an Older Aged Adoptee

On By lynellelongIn Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Sense of Belonging, Thailand, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Being adopted at older ages brings with it more complex issues to sort thru and need specialised support for. Min shares her story as a Thai adoptee.