ICAV presents a webinar on Searching on 23 April 2023 from lived experience and those who provide a formal search and support service.
Tag: DNA testing for adoptees
Abby Forero-Hilty at the Hague Special Commission
Abby Forero-Hilty's speech for the Hague Special Commission, Post Adoption Matters introduction panel.
A Journey in Re-defining My Identity
Maya Fleischmann shares her complex journey to find her identity as a person born in Hong Kong but adopted transracially into a Jewish Russian family.
Sold via adoption on the Gypsy black market in Greece
Roula shares her story of being sold as a baby by a Greek doctor who stole gypsy babies and trafficked them via adoption to foreign countries. The impacts, the ongoing complexities.
The Unaware Adoptee
Krishna shares what it feels like to find out about being adopted years later, the secrets and lies, the impacts. Late discovery intercountry adoptee.
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.
Stranger Than Fiction
In third grade, I was in Mrs. Peterson’s class and given the assignment to do a family history project. I asked my adoptive parents about the project and they stated my Aunt Eirene had worked on the family tree and traced back across several hundred years. My family automatically skipped the fact that my own …
DNA Testing: The Risks vs Rewards
Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, 1.5 Million DNA kits were sold online by AncestryDNA, a US-based DNA testing company. The sudden increase for DNA testing may be due to YouTube and Facebook’s large cache of emotional stories about the outcomes of DNA testing. Two YouTube video’s that stick out for me are: “DNA Journey” …