Label: orphans
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Adoption Can Be a Psychological Prison
Desiree shares about the complexities of breaking away from toxic ties if an adoption hasn’t served our best interests.
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Voices of those impacted the most in Adoption
Paul Bonnell’s essay written to express his journey of intercountry adoption from Vietnam.
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Return to Birthland
Vietnamese adoptee Lynelle shares about her second return journey to homeland, a decade later and how things have changed.
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Would Adoptees Adopt an Orphan?
Would Adoptees Adopt or Not? This is a compilation of responses from those with lived experience.
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What Intercountry Adoptees Need
Lynelle shares from dialogue within ICAV what intercountry adoptees need, having lived the experience.
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LIONHEART Review
Lynelle provides a recommendation and review of the book Lionheart – a terrific resource for any parent considering intercountry adoption written by adoptive parents.
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Personal Message from Lynelle
Lynelle writes about her views on the UNCRC and The Hague Convention for Intercountry Adoption.
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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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Artwork Submitted for The Colour of Time Cover Competition
Artwork submitted by adoptees for the competition of the front cover design concept of the book, The Colour of Time.
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When will Intercountry Adoptee Services be provided by Federal Government?
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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Memories and Feelings of an Older Aged Adoptee
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in Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Sense of Belonging, Thailand, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionBeing adopted at older ages brings with it more complex issues to sort thru and need specialised support for. Min shares her story as a Thai adoptee.
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Complexities of Intercountry Adoption
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in Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, ICAV Beginnings, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, VietnamLynelle shares on intercountry adoption, together with her own experience and hearing from many fellow adoptees on a range of questions asked by a journalist.
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Adoptee Anger
Lynelle shares about adoptee anger, how it connects to abandonment feelings, grief, loss and sadness; the best response is to listen and validate our feelings
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What is it like to be Adopted?
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in Abandonment and Rejection, Abuse in Adoption, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Suicide, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, VietnamLynelle answers the question What is it like to be adopted? providing insight from her own journey, sharing some common elements many other adoptees speak of.
