Why I am relieved that China terminated its adoption program

On January 31, 2025January 31, 2025 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee vulnerability, adoption reform, Adoption Research, Birth Parents Searching, China, China, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Generational trauma, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Racism in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, The Netherlands, Transracial Adoption, Uncategorized1 Comment

Cindy shares her thoughts as a Chinese adoptee about the closure of China's intercountry adoption program announced late 2024.

Pride in my Disability

On August 22, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoption and Disability, Diversity in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Maddy shares her pride in living with disability as an intercountry adoptee.

Searching for my family in China

On May 30, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptees Educate, Canada, China, Impacts to Biological Families, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in AdoptionLeave a comment

The following blog series will be dedicated to our Searching in Intercountry Adoption series. These individual stories are being shared from our Perspective Paper that was also shared with our Webinar, Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts. by Shelley Rottenberg, born in China, raised in Canada, http://www.shelleyrottenberg.ca I was adopted from Zhejiang, China to …

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Olivia Atkocaitis is not just a tabloid headline

On February 18, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Abuse in Adoption, China, Gratitude in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Maya challenges us to see beyond the tabloids and to give adoptees their space to represent themselves and be heard with their authentic real voices.

Grief in Adoption

On November 30, 2022January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptees Educate, China, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALeave a comment

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.

Adoptees at the Hague Special Commission

On July 1, 2022August 20, 2024 By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Family Preservation, Hague Special Commission, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Lived experience leadership, Peer Support, Politics of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Transracial AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle shares the history of adoptee led organisation involvement at the Hague Special Commission meetings and the importance of adoptee voices being included.

Anonymous shares about Adoptee Anger

On March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

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.

A Vigil for Christian Hall, 1 Year On

On December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 By lynellelongIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

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.

The Dehumanisation of an Adoptee

On October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Kayla discusses the dehumanising effects being adopted had or her life, the role Christianity played, and the importance to reclaim our own truth as an adoptee.

My realities of being adopted from China

On October 17, 2021October 10, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

by Xue Hua adopted from China to the USA. Hi everyone! My name is Xue Hua and I was adopted as a 1 year old from Hunan, China. I live in Indianapolis in the USA, where I've grown up. My (white American) parents had 3 biological children and then adopted me when their youngest was …

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Implications of China’s One Child Policy Expansion

On June 22, 2021June 2, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Chinese Canadian adoptee shares the impacts to her with the latest expansion of China's One Child Policy to now allow 3 children in a family.

How to Spot Racism and White Supremacy in Adoption Language

On March 26, 2021March 21, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Kayla Zheng adopted from China to the USA shares her thoughts on this phrase - You are Chosen.

Decolonizing Moses

On March 8, 2021March 8, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized7 Comments

by Kayla Zheng, adopted from China to the USA. Growing up in an evangelical white Christian home, I learned the story of Moses before I learned the story of Santa or Easter Bunny. White Christianity was a core pillar in my years growing up. Like Moses, who was orphaned and floated down the Nile to …

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Hurtful Words

On March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

by Wes Liu, adopted from China to the USA. Artwork by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom COVID continues to spread within our communities because people continue to lack seriousness when facing it. Chinese people continue to be blamed. While Asian ethnicities include countless unique, beautiful, and distinguishable cultures, many who are outside of the Asian diaspora can’t …

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