Addressing Sexual Abuse in Intercountry Adoption

ICAVs newest Perspective Paper on Sexual Abuse experiences of intercountry adoptees helping to elevate their voices and advocate for much needed supports.

Adopted from Moldova

Jacky shares about growing up with fragmented memories of their birth country Moldova and adjustments to fit in with life and family in the USA.

What do I want from my adoptive parents?

Lynelle shares what she would have wanted from her adoptive parents in response to the fraud and human rights abuses in her adoption.

How I feel about the end of Chinese intercountry adoption

Meredith shares the range of emotions she is experiencing since the announcement by China, her birth country, that all intercountry adoptions will stop.

Finding Home = Sense of Belonging

Sascha shares about her journey to find a sense of belonging as an adoptee from Sth Korea.

Returning Home to Greece

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

A formal apology for an illegal intercountry adoption

A historic day in Guatemala with an apology to a family who were torn apart by illegal intercountry adoption. English translation provided.

Afrocentric

Ebony Hickey, a Haitian Australian intercountry adoptee performed in Afrocentric at the Victorian Gallery of Victoria. We share her voice performance and photos

Searching for my family in China

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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