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Tag: Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Sexual Abuse

Celebrate the small victories

On October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Abuse in Adoption, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Discharge Annulment, Adoptive parents, Australia, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Post Adoption Support, Rights in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, VietnamLeave a comment

Lynelle shares about the apology received from the Australian Home Affairs Department for their role in her sexual abuse, in failing to protect her as a vulnerable child entering Australia.

My day of reckoning with the Lutheran Church

On November 6, 2023January 21, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Activism, Illegal Adoption, Trauma in Adoption1 Comment

Lynelle shares her healing journey thru a Direct Personal Response (DPR) with the Lutheran Church who gave a face to face apology for their role in her abuse.

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