Lynelle argues Hague States must address post-adoption costs, regulating services, ensuring accountability, and preventing exploitation of adoptees.
Tag: adoption trauma
Adoption Across a Lifetime: Why Reform Must Move Beyond the Child-Centric Lens
Lynelle's opening keynote on intercountry adoption, exploring identity, lifelong impacts, and the urgent need to reform systems beyond a child-centric lens.
Understanding the Grief Adoptees Carry
Intercountry adoptees often carry deep grief from separation, identity loss, and culture. Understanding begins with witnessing.
From Silence to Self: An Adoptee’s Song
Cao shares a song written across decades, exploring search, grief, identity, and healing after loss, silence, and self-acceptance.
Suicide Amongst Adoptees
Hilbrand shares about the trauma in relinquishment and adoption and the connection with suicide amongst adoptees.
The Dehumanisation of an Adoptee
Kayla discusses the dehumanising effects being adopted had or her life, the role Christianity played, and the importance to reclaim our own truth as an adoptee.
Coping with Loss from Adoption Suicide
Lina Vanegas shares about how she coped with suicide loss in adoption.
What Would it Take to Choose to Parent Me?
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 …
We can be our own Heroes
Bina shares about the after effects of losing fellow adoptees to suicide, how we can work together to overcome the things that death can trigger.
Adoptee Dualities
Abby explores the complex dualities adoptees face, from identity and family connections to cultural struggles, highlighting the emotional toll of navigating adoption experiences.
The Right to Identity
Maria Diemar shares her experience of multiple identities and the right to her original identity as a Mapuche person.
Adoption, Abuse & Exclusion from the Royal Commission
Lynelle's part 1 of 3 on Sexual Abuse within Adoption.
when mothers and fathers run like water, cuando madres y padres corre como el agua
when mothers and fathers run like water
The Importance of Including Those Most Impacted in Policy Discussions
Why it's important to include the triad in policy forums.
Why?
Jayme asks why his parents adopted?
staring at your stone, mirando fijamente a su piedra
Jesse Alonso visits his mothers grave stone.
Grieving Mother
Joey is adopted from China to the USA and writes about his grief for his first mother.
Identity, Lost & Found
Abby reflects on reclaiming her Latina identity after growing up in a white Jewish family, highlighting the impact of adoption practices on self-worth and cultural connection.
Digging in the Dirt
Abby emphasizes the importance of post-adoption services for healing adoption trauma, highlighting the need for community support, therapy, and resources to thrive.
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.
Inner Work for Adoptees
One of the highlights in travelling to the Netherlands last month was to finally meet in person Hilbrand Westra, a fellow intercountry adoptee born in South Korea and adopted to the Netherlands, whom I have liaised and worked with since the beginning of ICAV. Not only did I get to meet him in person, share …
Parenthood Made Me Better
Jayme shares about how becoming a parent himself has changed his life and perspective as an intercountry adoptee from South Korea.