Label: searching for origins
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Searching for my family in the Philippines
Desiree shares about searching for Filippino family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching for my family in South Korea
Samara shares about searching for Korean family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching for my family in Vietnam
Hyun shares about searching for Vietnamese family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts Webinar
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in Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Diversity in Adoption, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Haiti, Impacts to Biological Families, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, South Korea, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Trauma in Adoption, USAICAVs newest webinar and perspective paper on searching in intercountry adoption bringing you experiences of intercountry adoptees from around the world.
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Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts
ICAV presents a webinar on Searching on 23 April 2023 from lived experience and those who provide a formal search and support service.
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Vietnamese adopted brother and sister find each other through DNA
An unexpected DNA match between brother and sister, both separately adopted out of Vietnam to different countries, provides a unique story as intercountry adoptees.
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Ebony at K-Box Adoptee Takeover Night
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in Adoptee Activism, Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Haiti, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionEbony Hickey is a Haitian born intercountry adoptee to Australia whose contemporary artwork we included at the K-Box Adoptee Take Over Night.
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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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Relinquishment, Adoption and Grief
Bina shares about the loss that goes unrecognised in adoption during November Adoption Awareness Month and highlights the necessity of support for grieving.
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Longing (Someday) by Luke McQueen
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.
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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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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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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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Grief for Mother Lasts Forever
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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It’s a Black Week for Adoptees in Europe
Soorien & Dong-Mi share the losses of 5 intercountry adoptees in Europe over Xmas/NY period.
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Cancelling My Adoption
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in Adoptee Anger, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Discharge Annulment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Denmark, Family Preservation, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Racism in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionNetra Sommer is adopted from India to Denmark and endured abuse in her adoption and talks about undoing her adoption and the lengthy process to reclaim herself.
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Working through the difficult process as an Adoptee
JoYi Rhyss offers free zoom workshops to help adoptees.
