Céline share the complications of birthdays after reunion with her Romanian mother.
Tag: birth mother
Evacuation out of Vietnam on 20 April
My Huong Le reflects on life since leaving Vietnam as a young child 46 years ago.
Grief for Mother Lasts Forever
by Melanie Kleintz adopted from Peru to Germany. Between 24 December 2020 and 1 January 2021, a total of 6 adoptees from Europe took their own lives, a Black Week in Europe for adoptees. The number of unreported cases is definitely higher. All could not clarify their origins, their pain was too strong, and they …
Celebrating Secrets and Sadness
Adoptee birthdays are a day of celebrating secrets and sadness, a complex day of emotions reminding us we are not with the ones who birthed us.
No Mother, No Child
Yennifer Villa is a Colombian adoptee who has undertaken a project to photograph and capture the experiences of the mothers of loss in Colombia.