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I Don’t See Colour!

On By lynellelongIn Adoptee Anger, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Antiracism Education, Beauty in Diversity, Birth Country, colourblindness in adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption1 Comment

ICAV Blogger Collaborative Series #2 addressing adoption colour blindness.

What is in our “Best Interests” as Intercountry Adopted People?

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I find it interesting to ponder why the concept Best Interests of the Child in intercountry adoption is discussed and decisions made without substantial research on the long term outcomes in intercountry adoption. When I say long term, I mean decades to show how intercountry adoption impacts us through the various stages of life. Most …

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Adoptee Activism in America

On By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA2 Comments

Lynelle shares about the importance of including adoptee lived experience at the Adoption Symposium for the US Department of State in 2020.