Lynelle argues Hague States must address post-adoption costs, regulating services, ensuring accountability, and preventing exploitation of adoptees.
Tag: adoption reform
Korea’s Revised Adoption Process
Jayme Hansen applauds South Korea's revised adoption process more aligned with Hague Convention guidelines, creating more oversight of vulnerable children.
Maori adoptee letter to NZ Minister of Justice
Bev Reweti, transracial Maori adoptee, shares about her fight for justice and recognition of the historical wrongs to Maori adoptees like herself, in New Zealand.
Is Adoption Truly a Mother’s Choice?
Yung Fierens shares her Mother's Day thoughts to remind us to think critically about whether Korean mothers are truly consenting to their children being adopted.
We are more than Numbers!
Brenna talks about Korean adoption statistics and how adoptees are more than these numbers.
#AdoptionIsNoFairytale
Aurélie shares the frustration adoptees feel about Dilani's legal outcome.
Review: One Child Nation
Lynelle shares her thoughts about One Child Nation documentary.
Orphan Bennie
Benjamin responds via artwork on the UN's Resolution on the Rights of the Child
Adoption Laws – IF
Lynelle shares what she would suggest IF adoption laws could be changed.
The Blame Game
A statement was made while at the recent intercountry adoption symposium in Washington DC about "children at the border and how we need to get them adopted into American families". That statement combined with articles I’ve seen on Facebook about migrant children who have been separated from their families and are now being adopted into …
Adoptee Activism in America
Lynelle shares about the importance of including adoptee lived experience at the Adoption Symposium for the US Department of State in 2020.
Adoption: Neat & Tidy? Not So Much!
Jessica Davis shares the complexities of intercountry adoption gone wrong.
The Cycle of Harm in Celebrity Adoptions
Adoption is not heroism. It does not fight poverty, disease nor the root causes of inequality. Adoption doesn't even raise awareness about the real causes of poverty, inequality, parent-child separations, disease or social immobility. Instead it creates idolatry of those who look to adoption in a world which stigmatises infertility, disease, poverty and poor access …
Leadership in the Intercountry Adoptee Community
Abby Abby explores servant leadership in the intercountry transracial adoptee community, emphasizing empathy, healing, and empowerment in shaping adoption practices.
Thoughts on being a part of The Hague Illicit Practices Working Group
ICAV invited to be an Observer at the Hague Working Group.
A Filipino Adoptee’s Plea to Not Be Erased
Dear Intercountry Adoption Board (ICAB) of the Philippines, I'm a 33-year-old Filipino American adoptee and I refuse to be erased. I refuse to be ignored. I was born in the Philippines and it was not my choice to leave. But it is my choice to return as an adult and to regain my citizenship. Because, …
South Korean Adoptions: An Economic Analysis
CFO and Korean adoptee, Jayme investigates the economics of Sth Korea's adoptees sent out abroad.
Adoptee Citizenship
Rachel Kim Tschida share her special essay on the topic of American Citizenship for intercountry adoptees.
Rehomed & Abandoned Too Many Times
Ethiopian adoptee shares her journey of loss and more loss in relinquishment and adoption.
Where is the Outrage?
Lynelle writes critically about intercountry adoption numbers plummeting around the world.
Our Mothers and Families?
A followup on an intercountry adoptee (Yennifer Villa) project to hear from the mothers of loss in Colombian intercountry adoption.
The Truth of Intercountry Adoption
These past weeks have been frustrating to say the least! I received an official letter from the Australian Government - Minister Tehan's office, Minister for Social Services, one of the Federal departments responsible for intercountry adoption. Our stakeholder community has been actively writing and contacting the Minister to request a review of the decision to …
Voices of those impacted the most in Adoption
Paul Bonnell's essay written to express his journey of intercountry adoption from Vietnam.
Not My White Savior: Review
Julayne Lee's book, Not My White Savior is reviewed by ICAV.