Reunion and Beyond Webinar

On August 14, 2023January 9, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Diversity in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Illegal Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

ICAV shares part 2 of the Search and Reunion webinars in intercountry adoption by adoptee panelists.

Searching for my family in Sri Lanka

On June 24, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptees Educate, Australia, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Gabbie shares about searching for Sri Lankan family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.

Searching for my family in the Philippines

On June 19, 2023January 21, 2024 By Desiree MaruIn Adoptees Educate, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Philippines, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Desiree shares about searching for Filippino family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.

Searching for my family in South Korea

On June 9, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptees Educate, Australia, Impacts to Biological Families, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, South KoreaLeave a comment

Samara shares about searching for Korean family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.

Searching for my family in Vietnam

On June 4, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptees Educate, Impacts to Biological Families, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, USA, Vietnam1 Comment

Hyun shares about searching for Vietnamese family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.

Searching for my family in China

On May 30, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptees Educate, Canada, China, Impacts to Biological Families, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in AdoptionLeave a comment

The following blog series will be dedicated to our Searching in Intercountry Adoption series. These individual stories are being shared from our Perspective Paper that was also shared with our Webinar, Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts. by Shelley Rottenberg, born in China, raised in Canada, http://www.shelleyrottenberg.ca I was adopted from Zhejiang, China to …

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Searching for my family in Colombia

On May 25, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Colombia, Impacts to Biological Families, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Jose shares about searching for Colombian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.

Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts Webinar

On May 20, 2023January 21, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Diversity in Adoption, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Haiti, Impacts to Biological Families, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, South Korea, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Trauma in Adoption, USA1 Comment

ICAVs newest webinar and perspective paper on searching in intercountry adoption bringing you experiences of intercountry adoptees from around the world.

Search and Reunion in Intercountry Adoption

On July 8, 2022January 21, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Birth Parents Searching, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, DNA Searching, Importance of Connections to Origins, Key Themes in Search and Reunion, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Not ready for Reunion, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle provides a summary of ICAVs 2016 Perspective Paper: Search & Reunion - Impacts & Outcomes

What Happens After Reunion?

On January 30, 2022January 17, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized2 Comments

Matthew Pellegrino shares some realities of life after reunion for an intercountry adoptee, hoping to challenge the "happily ever after" myth of adoption.

InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)

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