Category: Rights in Adoption

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.

Degrees of Being Trafficked in Intercountry Adoption

On By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Adoptive Country, Australia, Birth Country, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Rights in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?2 Comments

Lynelle writes critically about the lack of formal support for adoptees who have been trafficked via intercountry adoption.

Citizenship should be guaranteed in Intercountry Adoption

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

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"?