Label: search and reunion
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Reunion and Beyond Webinar
ICAV shares part 2 of the Search and Reunion webinars in intercountry adoption by adoptee panelists.
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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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My Father’s Death Anniversary
My Huong Le celebrates her American father in a Vietnamese tradition known as celebrating the Death Anniversary of loved ones. Sadly she never got to meet him.
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The Ocean, My Mother
Allison shares the struggles of reunion and beyond, the disappointments, re-traumatisation when our mothers reject us again; the lifelong journey of adoption.
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Review of Reckoning with The Primal Wound
Lynelle provides thoughts after watching Rebecca’s Sansom’s documentary Reckoning with the Primal Wound, an adoptee led film on the impacts of our separation.
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Sold via adoption on the Gypsy black market in Greece
Roula shares her story of being sold as a baby by a Greek doctor who stole gypsy babies and trafficked them via adoption to foreign countries. The impacts, the ongoing complexities.
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The Sin of Love
Chinese father who lost his daughter via intercountry adoption shares his story of loss and hope, now reunion and the memories and pain it has brought up.
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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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Lost Siblings
Remembering My Youth As a child, I remember playing near the burn pits that laid by the small village of unpainted traditional Korean style homes (Hanoks). They nestled below a small outcrop of mountains, located in central Korea. My brother grabbed my hand to take me to see the prize he had found lying in…
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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.
