Label: adopted to America

in Adoptees Educate, Impacts to Biological Families, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, USA, Vietnam

Hyun shares about searching for Vietnamese family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.

Searching for my family in Colombia

mei 25, 2023

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in Colombia, Impacts to Biological Families, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, USA

Jose shares about searching for Colombian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.

Does Justice or Accountability Happen in Illicit Adoptions?

nov 23, 2021

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American adoptive mum Jessica Davis shares her thoughts since the guilty plea from adoption agency staffer, Debra Parris, who facilitated the illicit adoption.

Longing (Someday) by Luke McQueen

okt 29, 2021

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Luke McQueen shares candidly about himself, his journey as an adoptee and musician, and his song Longing (Someday) – a piece included in ICAVs video resource.

My realities of being adopted from China

okt 17, 2021

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by Xue Hua adopted from China to the USA. Hi everyone! My name is Xue Hua and I was adopted as a 1 year old from Hunan, China. I live in Indianapolis in the USA, where I’ve grown up. My (white American) parents had 3 biological children and then adopted me when their youngest was…

The Duality of being Disabled and Adopted

mrt 11, 2021

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Erin shares the complexities of living with disability AND being an adoptee.

We are more than Numbers!

Jan 5, 2021

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Brenna talks about Korean adoption statistics and how adoptees are more than these numbers.

Adoptee Dualities

dec 2, 2020

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Abby Forero-Hilty

by Abby Hilty, born in Colombia adopted to the USA, currently living in Canada. She wrote and shared this on her Facebook wall for National Adoption Awareness Month. Adoptees are constantly grappling with a life full of complex dualities. I am an only child, but I have at least 4 siblings. I have a birth…

Distorted Priorities

nov 22, 2020

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It has come to my attention that the US Senate and Congress members have recently been sending letters to push for their agenda in intercountry adoption. The first I attach here to Assistant Secretary Carl Risch requesting attention to recommit to one of the purposes of the Intercountry Adoption Act, “to improve the ability of…

when i am old, cuando sea viejo

apr 9, 2020

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when i am old, cuando sea viejo

Why?

Jan 20, 2020

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Jayme asks why his parents adopted?

One Child Policy Impacts

Jan 16, 2020

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Chinese adoptee Fuyi expresses her search for identity and origins via her artwork.

Grieving Mother

dec 23, 2019

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in Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Attachment, China, China, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA

Joey is adopted from China to the USA and writes about his grief for his first mother.

My DNA History

feb 27, 2018

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DNA Brief Hansen Short 2018 Click on the link above. You will then be asked to OPEN or SAVE the file. If you want to watch it – click OPEN. If you want to keep the file – click SAVE. This is a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show with audio inserted in most pages. Click onto…

The Other Half Left Behind

Jan 31, 2018

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– Many adoptees were sent to orphanages before they were adopted and many do not remember the experiences they had before being sent to their forever homes. At one time, we adoptees may have begun the same journey in life as one of the millions of orphans placed in orphanages. However, a choice made by…

Yellow Snow

dec 20, 2017

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