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Intercountry adoptees taking legal action and reclaiming our rights

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Intercountry adoptees worldwide are taking legal action to expose illegal adoptions, demand truth, and push for justice, accountability, and human rights reform.

Grief in Adoption

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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.

Bolivian Adoptee Anthology Book Review

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Lynelle provides a review of the Bolivian adoptee anthology Communal Histories of Displacement and Adoption by the Network of Bolivian Adoptees

The Aloneness of Motherloss

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Mila Konomos articulates the aloneness of mother loss, the grief and loss an adoptee lives due to being separated at birth.

What Would it Take to Choose to Parent Me?

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by Cam Lee Small, adopted from South Korea to the USA, therapist at TherapyRedeemed. Not all children get to ask this question before they become adoptees. And not all expectant mothers get a chance to answer. I know there are so many kinds of circumstances represented in our community, even as you’re reading this and …

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Peruvian Adoptee Returns to Birth Country

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Milagros Forrester shares with ICAV about her return trips to Peru and how it impacted her search for identity and belonging.