Category: Illicit Adoption
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Reflecting on 25 Years as Founder of ICAV
Celebrating and reflecting on 25 years since ICAV began, the changes, the achievements and highlighting the power of peer support and collaboration over time.
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Shape Shifting
Daughter lost via adoption from her Chinese father, tells her perspective of the complexities reunion brings up for them both and the losses that remain lifelong.
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The Sin of Love
Chinese father who lost his daughter via intercountry adoption shares his story of loss and hope, now reunion and the memories and pain it has brought up.
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An Accounting from One Adoptee
Mary shares her journey of coming to terms with being adopted, the impacts, the legacy, and how she moves forward to bring together voices of Greek adoptees.
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Citizenship should be guaranteed in Intercountry Adoption
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in 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, USACitizenship in America is not granted to all intercountry adoptees. This paper explores the topic critically from those with lived experience.