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Returning Home to Greece

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Mary Cardaras shares her thoughts about returning to birth country Greece having been raised and adopted into the USA.

What Would it Take to Choose to Parent Me?

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by Cam Lee Small, adopted from South Korea to the USA, therapist at TherapyRedeemed. Not all children get to ask this question before they become adoptees. And not all expectant mothers get a chance to answer. I know there are so many kinds of circumstances represented in our community, even as you’re reading this and …

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Degrees of Being Trafficked in Intercountry Adoption

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

Who Am I?

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Jayme questions who he is as an intercountry adoptee from Sth Korea.

Gabby Mentors Young Chinese Adoptees via Art

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Gabby Malpas shares her talent by mentoring younger Chinese adoptees through her artwork.

The Power of Peer Support

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Lynelle writes critically about the power of peer support in intercountry adoption.

Complexities of Intercountry Adoption

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Lynelle shares on intercountry adoption, together with her own experience and hearing from many fellow adoptees on a range of questions asked by a journalist.