Étiquette : adoptés transraciaux
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Dualités
Oeuvre de Dilsah, adoptée du Sri Lanka à la Suisse. Elle explore la dualité de l'expérience de l'adopté.
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Le deuil de la mère dure pour toujours
by Melanie Kleintz adopted from Peru to Germany. Between 24 December 2020 and 1 January 2021, a total of 6 adoptees from Europe took their own lives, a Black Week in Europe for adoptees. The number of unreported cases is definitely higher. All could not clarify their origins, their pain was too strong, and they…
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Vous ne pouvez pas vous conseiller sur l'appartenance
Juliette shares her thoughts after watching Red Table Talk episode featuring Angela Tucker, transracial adoptee.
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Sortir du brouillard des adoptés
Mark Hagland shares about awakening our awareness to the impacts of being adopted.
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Activisme des adoptés en Amérique
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dans Convention de La Haye de 1993, Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Professionals, réforme de l'adoption, Pays de naissance, 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, Adoption transraciale, Traumatisme en adoption, Etats-UnisLynelle shares about the importance of including adoptee lived experience at the Adoption Symposium for the US Department of State in 2020.
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Le cycle du mal dans les adoptions de célébrités
Adoption is not heroism. It does not fight poverty, disease nor the root causes of inequality. Adoption doesn’t even raise awareness about the real causes of poverty, inequality, parent-child separations, disease or social immobility. Instead it creates idolatry of those who look to adoption in a world which stigmatises infertility, disease, poverty and poor access…
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Pourquoi je ne reviens pas : le point de vue d'un adopté international
Intercountry adoptee shares about racism and xenophobia.
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Exceptions à la règle
A post from an adopter on my Facebook page got me thinking about an issue. Is there an exception to the rule where intercountry adoptions should be allowed? The woman stated that, “All 13 of my children from China have special needs. Some pretty severe. One thing for sure … no-one in-country stepped up to…
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Mimétisme de la grue
Can a famous example of conservation teach us anything about adoption? Most people can’t see a correlation but I do! Less than a hundred years ago, there were just 16 whooping cranes left in North America. These beautiful majestic birds were near the brink of extinction. Men who over hunted and destroyed the bird’s habitat…
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Citoyenneté des adoptés
Rachel Kim Tschida share her special essay on the topic of American Citizenship for intercountry adoptees.
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Transformer la négativité en positivité avec le bouddhisme
Desiree partage son expérience d'essayer la méditation Vipassana lors d'une retraite bouddhiste, un moyen d'expulser ses énergies négatives et un moyen de gérer la colère des adoptés.
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Etre seul
I get up in the morning and I try. That’s basically what it’s like every morning as an adult adoptee. Whenever I look back in my mind, my past stretches past a million acres of difficult terrain that’s emotionally challenging and left psychological imprints on me. An adoptive family I never got that close with.…
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Soins personnels et guérison
Last week, I was fortunate and privileged enough to attend a 3-day Adoptee Self Care Retreat funded by the Australian Government for adoptees from the Forced Adoption era and for people who have been in State care. I want to share my thoughts of what I gained from attending as I found it to be such…
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La vérité sur l'adoption internationale
These past weeks have been frustrating to say the least! I received an official letter from the Australian Government – Minister Tehan’s office, Minister for Social Services, one of the Federal departments responsible for intercountry adoption. Our stakeholder community has been actively writing and contacting the Minister to request a review of the decision to…