Etiqueta: adopción
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De Tailandia sin identidad
Lisa Kininger shares her lifelong quest to find her Thai identity. Along the way she discovers it’s the journey that matters, not the end result.
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Encontrar el amor
Denny walked into the library and I greeted him at the circulation desk. Immediately, I felt that he was my soulmate. Later on, I found out he felt the very same thing. He’d visited a few more times, and then disappeared for a few months. In that time, I started learning how to fly by…
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Convirtiendo la negatividad en positividad con el budismo
Desiree comparte su experiencia de probar la meditación Vipassana en un retiro budista, una forma de expulsar sus energías negativas y una forma de lidiar con la ira de los adoptados.
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La niña llorando
How the Korean Government Fails I was stationed in Korea for eight years and have made more than a dozen trips to Korea since I left in 2007. During my last visit to Itaewon, I came across a small bronze statue of a girl sitting on a chair, next to an empty chair, located at…
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Lo que pierden los adoptados en la adopción internacional
I normally tiptoe around adoption and never say the A word because people just don’t respond well to “adoptee anger“. But during the month of November, I feel it is appropriate to air my feelings on what I have anger about, in intercountry adoption. I hate that our original identities are ignored and get obliterated…
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Desencadenantes de ansiedad
I had my first panic attack almost fifteen years ago. I had just found out that my then partner was pregnant. As happy as I was for her and us that we were having a baby, something inside of me which I had suppressed for my whole life, without being aware of until then, was…
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Regreso a la tierra natal
Vietnamese adoptee Lynelle shares about her second return journey to homeland, a decade later and how things have changed.
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Pruebas de ADN: los riesgos frente a las recompensas
Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, 1.5 Million DNA kits were sold online by AncestryDNA, a US-based DNA testing company. The sudden increase for DNA testing may be due to YouTube and Facebook’s large cache of emotional stories about the outcomes of DNA testing. Two YouTube video’s that stick out for me are: “DNA Journey”…
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¿Adoptarían los adoptados a un huérfano?
Would Adoptees Adopt or Not? This is a compilation of responses from those with lived experience.
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La paternidad me hizo mejor
One of the most memorable moments, forever ingrained in my memory, is the birth of my son. I remember the anxious months waiting for my beautiful son, developing inside his mother’s womb – feeling his small frame kicking about and waiting to be born. I remember staring at the ultrasound pictures and wondering who he…
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Lo que necesitan los adoptados internacionales
Lynelle shares from dialogue within ICAV what intercountry adoptees need, having lived the experience.
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Mensaje personal de Lynelle
Lynelle writes about her views on the UNCRC and The Hague Convention for Intercountry Adoption.
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Investigación de búsqueda y reunión en adopción internacional
Pauline Senchyna’s research on Search & Reunion for Ireland’s aging intercountry adoptees.
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¿Cuándo proporcionará el Gobierno Federal los Servicios para Adoptados Internacionales?
Lynelle critically examines who and how well the millions of money is being spent by the Australian government in intercountry adoption.
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Abandonado Adoptado aquí: Revisión
ICAV review of Abandoned, Adopted Here: a multimedia documentary by Lucy Sheen about the Hong Kong intercountry adoptees sent to England.