Label: intercountry adoption search and reunion
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Reunification with my Colombian Family
A Colombian Australian intercountry adoptee shares their story of reunification with biological family.
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Search and Reunion in Intercountry Adoption
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in Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Birth Parents Searching, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, DNA Searching, Importance of Connections to Origins, Key Themes in Search and Reunion, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Not ready for Reunion, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLynelle provides a summary of ICAVs 2016 Perspective Paper: Search & Reunion – Impacts & Outcomes
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I’m like a Deer Caught in the Headlights
by Krem0076, an Korean intercountry adoptee raised in the USA. I am an adoptee from a closed international adoption. I have paperwork but for many of us, our paperwork is often fraught with mistakes, lies and discrepancies. That is a challenge – is my information accurate? My birth name? My birthdate? My origin story if…
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Why do Intercountry Adoptees want to know their Origins?
The desire to know my origins is an innate and fundamental human need (and right). My need to know my origins is akin to your need to breath air that keeps you alive. We only know our origins are important when we don’t have it, or access to it. For people like me, this is…
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her name was maité, su nombre era maité
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
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Excerpt: First Letter to my Iranian Father
Iranian adoptee shares her thoughts (excerpt) to her new found Iranian father.
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Search & Reunion Research in Intercountry Adoption
Pauline Senchyna’s research on Search & Reunion for Ireland’s aging intercountry adoptees.
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Search and Reunion for Intercountry Adoptees
Search and Reunion in intercountry adoption: a compliation of over 40 intercountry adoptees with lived experience.
