Cindy shares her thoughts as a Chinese adoptee about the closure of China's intercountry adoption program announced late 2024.
Tag: adoption is a lifelong journey
Returning Home to Greece
Mary Cardaras shares her thoughts about returning to birth country Greece having been raised and adopted into the USA.
Grief in Adoption
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.
Andrea shares about Adoptee Anger
Andrea shares her experience of feeling angry as an adoptee because of the racism and lack of support at school.
Toxicity and Grief
by Dan R Moen, adopted from the Philippines to the USA. Part three of this series focuses on toxicity and its impact with grief. The black vine-like shapes represent toxicity and how it manifests itself within and around all of us. It’s depicted as an uncontrollable beast and has completely engulfed an individual. It grows …
Relinquishment, Adoption and Grief
Bina shares about the loss that goes unrecognised in adoption during November Adoption Awareness Month and highlights the necessity of support for grieving.
My Father’s Death Anniversary
My Huong Le celebrates her American father in a Vietnamese tradition known as celebrating the Death Anniversary of loved ones. Sadly she never got to meet him.
My realities of being adopted from China
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 …
Adoption and the Impact on our Partners
Partners of adoptees are impacted immensely by our adoptions but we never hear this perspective. Brian shares how he's been impacted by adoption via marriage.
I’m like a Deer Caught in the Headlights
by Krem0076, an Korean intercountry adoptee raised in the USA. Krem0076 as a toddler I am an adoptee from a closed international adoption. I have paperwork but for many of us, our paperwork is often fraught with mistakes, lies and discrepancies. That is a challenge - is my information accurate? My birth name? My birthdate? …
Dualities
Artwork by Dilsah, adopted from Sri Lanka to Switzerland. She explores the duality of the adoptee experience.
Tears of Trauma
CS Massey shares the artwork created around making visible the impacts of loss and relinquishment.
The Aloneness of Motherloss
Mila Konomos articulates the aloneness of mother loss, the grief and loss an adoptee lives due to being separated at birth.
Adoptee Remembrance Day
Lynelle writes about adoptee suicide for Adoptee Remembrance Day