Category: USA
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Our separation bears down on both of us
Jillian shares her artwork expressing the shared grief and loss of the many years of separation between her South Korean mother and herself before reunion.
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Victims of Illegal Intercountry Adoptions speak out at the UN
ICAV presents at the UN first year anniversary of the Joint Statement on Illegal Intercountry Adoptions, where to from here.
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Searching for my family in the Philippines
Desiree shares about searching for Filippino family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching for my family in Romania
Sonia shares about searching for Romanian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching for my family in Vietnam
Hyun shares about searching for Vietnamese family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching for my family in Colombia
Jose shares about searching for Colombian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts Webinar
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in Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Diversity in Adoption, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Haiti, Impacts to Biological Families, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, South Korea, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Trauma in Adoption, USAICAVs newest webinar and perspective paper on searching in intercountry adoption bringing you experiences of intercountry adoptees from around the world.
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New Goals as an Adoptee in a New City
Desiree shares the complexities of life as an adoptee, the challenges of finding and establishing ones roots, reinventing oneself, finding a place to just be.
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Olivia Atkocaitis is not just a tabloid headline
Maya challenges us to see beyond the tabloids and to give adoptees their space to represent themselves and be heard with their authentic real voices.
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Sensitively Responding to Fears of Abandonment
Lyla shares an awesome way her adoptive parents assisted her with abandonment fears – a rational fear all adoptees have borne out of losing their first family.
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A Privilege, Not a Right
Kamina shares her thoughts on adoption as an adoptee via her poetry.
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Your Grief is Your Gift
Through her poetry, Kamina explores adoption, relinquishment and her lifelong journey of discovery.
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How to Truly Save and Help a Child
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in 1993 Hague Convention, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Return to Birth Country, Rights in Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, Uganda, UN Joint Statement Illegal Adoption, USA, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?Jessica shares the realities of intercountry adoption and what people can do to help a vulnerable child in need, challenging the usual narrative of adoption.
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Navigating Disability and Rare Medical Conditions as an Intercountry Adoptee
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in Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption and Disability, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, China, Complexities in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Iran, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Special Medical Conditions, Sri Lanka, Suicide, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA, VietnamWhat complex issues do intercountry adoptees living with disability and or a rare disease navigate? We have created a resource to help educate on this topic.
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Grief in Adoption
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in Adoptees Educate, China, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USACosette shares deep feelings of grief during her life, coming to terms with all she’s lost and might never know. Being adopted means living deep grief.
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Confirmation that we are born as adoptees
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in Adoptee Birthdays, Adoptee Names, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Birth Parents Searching, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, South Korea, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USAHollee shares on the significance of having access to information about our origins as adoptees.
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An Adoptee’s Thoughts on Haaland vs Brackeen
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in Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, adoption reform, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Family Preservation, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, South Korea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USAPatrick shares on the current Haaland vs Brackeen case that challenges the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and asks why family preservation isn’t the focus.
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One Adoptee’s Thoughts on the UN Joint Statement on Illegal Intercountry Adoptions
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in 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, adoption reform, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Denmark, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Family Preservation, France, Germany, Greece, Grief and Loss, Haiti, Hong Kong, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Iran, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, New Zealand, Norway, Origins Search, Philippines, Rights in Adoption, Romania, Russia, Search and Reunion in Adoption, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, Uganda, UK, UN Joint Statement Illegal Adoption, USA, Vietnam, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?Lynelle shares her thoughts on the UN Joint Statement on Illegal Intercountry Adoption.
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A Question for Adoption Agencies
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in 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, South Korea, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USACameron asks adoption agencies how well they are incorporating adoptee voices and adoptee led research into their practice and policy.
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Bolivian Adoptee Anthology Book Review
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in Abandonment and Rejection, Abuse in Adoption, Adoptee Anger, Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Book, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, DNA Searching, France, Gratitude in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Italy, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Norway, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALynelle provides a review of the Bolivian adoptee anthology Communal Histories of Displacement and Adoption by the Network of Bolivian Adoptees
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Embracing Therapy as an Adoptee
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in Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Russia, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USAOleg shares the journey from being ashamed of needing therapy to fully embracing and recognising the benefits it added to his life as an intercountry adoptee.
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Adoptee Fear and Vulnerability
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in Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Russia, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USAOleg shares on the fear and vulnerability so many adoptees live and being brave to open up and trust his adoptive mother to understand and support his journey.
