Expectations of Gratitude in Adoption

On February 14, 2018February 6, 2024 By lynellelongIn Abuse in Adoption, Adoptee Anger, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Gratitude in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption3 Comments

Lynelle shares about the burden of being expected to be grateful in being adopted.

Not Good Enough

On February 10, 2018May 13, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

I was an artistic child and I spent much of my free time drawing when I was a child. I drew my interpretation of Star Wars. I was not allowed to watch the movie because my religious parents believed it was evil to try and interpret the future. Our hired hand found my drawings in …

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Monarchs and Viceroys: Interracial Couple Issues

On February 3, 2018February 15, 2018 By jaymekyopoIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Intercountry adoptee explores interracial issues when we partner a person of our same race/ethnicity.

What Intercountry Adoptees Need

On January 27, 2018June 8, 2023 By lynellelongIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Lynelle shares from dialogue within ICAV what intercountry adoptees need, having lived the experience.

Degrees of Being Trafficked in Intercountry Adoption

On January 20, 2018February 6, 2024 By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Adoptive Country, Australia, Birth Country, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Rights in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?2 Comments

Lynelle writes critically about the lack of formal support for adoptees who have been trafficked via intercountry adoption.

Adoptive Parent Decision Making in Intercountry Adoption

On January 17, 2018September 5, 2019 By lynellelongIn Uncategorized7 Comments

When adoption becomes politicized, there’s a tendency to dehumanize the child. The child is not a political pawn, some poor waif smuggled out of a war-torn country into a loving home. But when media articles portray adoptions this way, the child’s developing identity is impacted by these prejudices.

Yellow Snow

On December 20, 2017October 20, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn Uncategorized8 Comments

I grew up on a dairy farm in rural Minnesota. Minnesota is a state, located in the north central region of the United States and borders Canada. Most people do not know the most northern point of the lower 48 states is located in Minnesota. It should be no surprise to learn Minnesota ranks in …

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Korean Killdeers

On December 11, 2017November 22, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn Uncategorized1 Comment

I was reared on a small dairy farm that rested on the edge of the Red River Valley on the Minnesota side. I grew up in a rural farming community that was filled with a lush green forest of corn, amber waves of grain and intermittent dots of farm homesteads covered with thick deciduous trees. …

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LIONHEART Review

On November 30, 2017January 3, 2019 By lynellelongIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Lynelle provides a recommendation and review of the book Lionheart - a terrific resource for any parent considering intercountry adoption written by adoptive parents.

Reconstructing Identity and Heritage

On November 27, 2017July 25, 2022 By Desiree MaruIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Desiree shares her thoughts on being an orphan and finding her identity.

InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)

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