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Intercountry Adoption Search for Origins

On By lynellelongIn Adoptee Support, Adoptees Educate, adoption conversations, Adoption Conversations, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoption policy, adoption reform, Australia, Canada, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, DNA Searching, Finding biological mother, identity restoration, Importance of Connections to Origins, Key Themes in Search and Reunion, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not ready for Reunion, Origins Search, Peer support, Post Adoption Support, Return to Birth Country, Return to Birth Country, right to identity, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Searching but no reunion in adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Intercountry adoptee Lynelle Long explores search for origins, identity, records, DNA, reunion, culture, belonging and the lifelong support adoptees need.

Adoption is a lifelong process

On By lynellelongIn Abandonment and Rejection, Abuse in Adoption, Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee Intimate Relationships, Adoptee Support, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Attachment, adoption conversations, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoption questions, adoptive family dialogue, adoptive parent reflection, Aloneness, Isolation, colourblindness in adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Finding biological mother, Importance of Connections to Origins, Intercultural struggles, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Peer support, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Return to Birth Country, Sense of Belonging, Suicide, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle presents that adoptees need informed, compassionate and lifelong support as they navigate identity, belonging and the complexities of living between two worlds.