Etikett: adopterad till USA

Pride in my Disability

aug 22, 2023

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i Adoption and Disability, Diversity in Adoption, USA

Maddy shares her pride in living with disability as an intercountry adoptee.
Searching for my family in the Philippines

jun 19, 2023

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Desiree Maru

i Adoptees Educate, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Ursprungssökning, Philippines, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA

Desiree shares about searching for Filippino family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
Söker efter min familj i Vietnam

jun 4, 2023

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i Adoptees Educate, Impacts to Biological Families, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Ursprungssökning, 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.
Söker efter min familj i Colombia

maj 25, 2023

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

Jose berättar om hur han letar efter colombiansk familj i vår serie dedikerade till att utforska komplexiteten, utmaningarna och verkligheten för adopterade utomlands.
Grief in Adoption

nov 30, 2022

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i Adoptees Educate, Kina, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Ursprungssökning, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA

Cosette shares deep feelings of grief during her life, coming to terms with all she’s lost and might never know. Being adopted means living deep grief.
Bekräftelse på att vi är födda som adopterade

nov 22, 2022

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i Adoptee Birthdays, Adoptee Names, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Birth Parents Searching, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Ursprungssökning, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sydkorea, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA

Hollee shares on the significance of having access to information about our origins as adoptees.
An Adoptee’s Thoughts on Haaland vs Brackeen

nov 11, 2022

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i Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, adoptionsreform, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Familjebevarande, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Sydkorea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA

Patrick shares on the current Haaland vs Brackeen case that challenges the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and asks why family preservation isn’t the focus.
Adoptee Fear and Vulnerability

jul 18, 2022

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i Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Russia, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA

Oleg shares on the fear and vulnerability so many adoptees live and being brave to open up and trust his adoptive mother to understand and support his journey.
Adoption Can Be a Psychological Prison

maj 9, 2022

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Desiree Maru

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Desiree shares about the complexities of breaking away from toxic ties if an adoption hasn’t served our best interests.
America—You Made It Hard to Be Proud to Be Asian-American

maj 2, 2022

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Mary provides insight of challenges she faces as a Korean intercountry adoptee and coming to embrace her Asian American identity despite the difficulties.
Poesi speglar min inre värld

apr 12, 2022

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Kev Minh Allen shares poetry that reflects his inner world as an intercountry adoptee, born in Vietnam and raised in the USA.
My Adoption Day Is An Anniversary of Loss

mar 7, 2022

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Mary shares how Adoption Day anniversary can trigger feelings of grief and loss that pervade her life; coming to terms with it, making the most of life now.
Anonymous shares about Adoptee Anger

mar 1, 2022

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Anonymous shares as a Chinese adoptee about anger, her journey of coming to terms with what has created her life and what has helped her deal with her anger.
Påven skämmer folk till att adoptera barn

jan 18, 2022

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Cameron Lee ifrågasätter med rätta de antaganden som påven Franciskus gör om adoption och skamfulla föräldrar som är barnlösa för att adoptera ett barn.
Pain of Loss and the Joy at Seeing her Reunified with her Family

jan 9, 2022

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Jessica Davis shares her grief from returning her Ugandan daughter back to her biological family but also the joy at seeing them together. Adoption is complex.
What I Lost When I Was Adopted

jan 4, 2022

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Stephanie shares questions and thoughts about the complex path traversed to come to integrate losses and gains into a sense of identity as a Filipino adoptee.
A Vigil for Christian Hall, 1 Year On

dec 31, 2021

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An online vigil, 30 Dec 2021, in honour of Christian Hall, adopted from China to the USA, shot to death by police during a mental health episode.
Adoption: Not a Default Setting

dec 25, 2021

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Mary Cardaras, Greek intercountry adoptee in the USA, critically examines Amy Conley Barrett’s assumption that adoption is a default to abortion.
Toxicity and Grief

dec 21, 2021

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by Dan R Moen, adopted from the Philippines to the USA. Part three of this series focuses on toxicity and its impact with grief. The black vine-like shapes represent toxicity and how it manifests itself within and around all of us. It’s depicted as an uncontrollable beast and has completely engulfed an individual. It grows…
Does My Perspective Matter?

dec 17, 2021

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Part 2 of a 3 part artwork series that Dan Moen creates to share about his adoption experience, in this piece he paints to portray the lived experience of grief
Grieving for the Child of the Past

dec 13, 2021

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Dan R Moen, Filipino adoptee and talented artist shares a 3 part series of paintings depicting the internal struggles an intercountry adoptee traverses.
Spendera Thanksgiving på egen hand

nov 25, 2021

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Desiree Maru

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Desiree delar med sig av upp- och nedgångarna med att vara singel som adopterad, att vara ensam, särskilt under de viktiga semestertider som Thanksgiving eller Xmas.
På väg mot återhämtning

nov 18, 2021

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Desiree Maru

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Stephanie shares her 5 tips that helped her on the road to recovery as an intercountry adoptee. Adopted from the Philippines to the USA.
A Picture Conveys a Thousand Emotions

nov 14, 2021

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Sara shares her memories of childhood with her brothers by the well in Korea, just before her father gave them away to an orphanage. She is adopted to the USA.