Conversations Across Adoption – Part 3

On June 13, 2026May 27, 2026 By lynellelongIn Adjustment and Transition, adoptee emotional burden, Adoptee Support, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, adoption accountability, adoption and power imbalance, adoption and silence, Adoption Conversations, adoption conversations, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption estrangement, Adoption questions, adoptive family dialogue, adoptive parent defensiveness, adoptive parent reflection, Adoptive parents, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Exploring adoptive parent journey, Gratitude in Adoption, Grief and Loss, human rights abuses in adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Post Adoption Support, Racism in Adoption, Return to Birth Country, right to identity, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, South Korea, State responsibilities in adoption, Survival mechanisms, Transracial AdoptionLeave a comment

Adoptee Lynelle and adoptive parent Kristin explore silence, emotional protection, loyalty, and why difficult adoption conversations often break down.

The most invisible adoptees

On February 8, 2025February 9, 2025 By lynellelongIn Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptee Anger, adoptee in prison, Adoptee vulnerability, Alcohol and drug addiction, Australia, Citizenship in Adoption, colourblindness in adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Deportation of Adoptees, Difficult discussions in adoption, Exploring adoptive parent journey, Generational trauma, Importance of Connections to Origins, incarcerated adoptee, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Post Adoption Support, Racism in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Sri Lanka, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle raises awareness of those intercountry adoptees who are incarcerated, an unheard voice.

Kris shares about Adoptee Anger

On March 3, 2022February 21, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Kris shares about the experience as a Late Discovery Adoptee and feelings of anger, exploring this emotion and how it can be harnessed to push for change.

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.

Kyleigh shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 27, 2022February 21, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Kyleigh shares as a Colombian about Adoptee Anger, feeling different, the pain of not being understood, the structures that promote adoption as a solution.

JD shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 25, 2022February 18, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

JD shares as a Filipino adoptee about anger: anger for the abuse, the lies, the rejection, the impacts and lack of supports.

Ofir shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 23, 2022February 21, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Ofir shares as a Colombian adoptee about her anger, feeling displaced, misunderstood, having no-one to connect with or speak to in the same language.

Ande shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 19, 2022February 18, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Ande shares about Adoptee Anger as a Late Discovery Adoptee thru' the ICAV series that explores what this emotion is about from a lived experience perspective.

Andrea shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 17, 2022February 16, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Andrea shares her experience of feeling angry as an adoptee because of the racism and lack of support at school.

The Unaware Adoptee

On June 2, 2021May 27, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Krishna shares what it feels like to find out about being adopted years later, the secrets and lies, the impacts. Late discovery intercountry adoptee.

Letter to President Moon

On February 18, 2021February 12, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized1 Comment

by Michelle Y. K. Piper adopted from Sth Korea to Australia. President Moon, To you, I may be merely a statistic. A Number. Name: 86c-1335. Born: “bastard” Abandoned by: Bio Mother These are the words inked into the brittle pages “cataloguing” my birth, 4 ½ months before I was separated from my mother, exiled from my motherland, …

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Life Lessons from an Adoptee – Part 2

On July 5, 2020June 24, 2020 By Tamieka SmallIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Part 2 of Life Lessons by Tamieka Small

Adoption is Complex

On June 25, 2020June 12, 2020 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Rowan shares his thoughts about being adopted.

Turning Negativity into Positivity with Buddhism

On November 29, 2018July 25, 2022 By Desiree MaruIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Desiree shares her experience of trying Vipassana meditation at a Buddhist retreat, a way to expel her negative energies and a way to deal with adoptee anger.

What Adoptees Lose in Intercountry Adoption

On November 15, 2018December 8, 2020 By lynellelongIn Uncategorized1 Comment

I normally tiptoe around adoption and never say the A word because people just don't respond well to "adoptee anger". But during the month of November, I feel it is appropriate to air my feelings on what I have anger about, in intercountry adoption. I hate that our original identities are ignored and get obliterated …

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Adoptee Anger

On February 10, 2015February 2, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Anger, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, Vietnam6 Comments

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

InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)

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