Lynelle argues Hague States must address post-adoption costs, regulating services, ensuring accountability, and preventing exploitation of adoptees.
Tag: intercountry adoptees
Adoption Across a Lifetime: Why Reform Must Move Beyond the Child-Centric Lens
Lynelle's opening keynote on intercountry adoption, exploring identity, lifelong impacts, and the urgent need to reform systems beyond a child-centric lens.
Agent Orange, Adoption, and the Long Reach of War
Vietnam adoptee Vinh shares his search for family, the impact of Agent Orange, reunion with his mother, and a call to heal trauma and end violence.
Finding My Bangladeshi Mother
Sofia shares her journey from Bangladesh to Sweden and the profound moment DNA testing confirmed her biological mother is alive.
Embracing self love in recovery
Jonas Haid, adopted from Sth Korea to Germany, shares his latest artwork and thoughts.
Celebrate the small victories
Lynelle shares about the apology received from the Australian Home Affairs Department for their role in her sexual abuse, in failing to protect her as a vulnerable child entering Australia.
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.
Searching for my family in Russia
Raya shares about searching for Russian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
Searching for my family in the Philippines
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 Romania
Sonia shares about searching for Romanian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
Searching for my family in South Korea
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
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
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 …
Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts Webinar
ICAVs newest webinar and perspective paper on searching in intercountry adoption bringing you experiences of intercountry adoptees from around the world.
Let’s talk about Illegal and Illicit Intercountry Adoptions
Lynelle starts the conversation on illegal and illicit adoptions that adoptive parents must have with their adopted children, highlighting the lack of supports.
UK Intercountry Adoptees Webinar
ICAV UK shares a panel of intercountry adoptee answers to questions asked by UK adoptive parents from AdoptionUK via a webinar run on 30 Jan 2023.
Vietnamese adopted brother and sister find each other through DNA
An unexpected DNA match between brother and sister, both separately adopted out of Vietnam to different countries, provides a unique story as intercountry adoptees.
Navigating Disability and Rare Medical Conditions as an Intercountry Adoptee
What complex issues do intercountry adoptees living with disability and or a rare disease navigate? We have created a resource to help educate on this topic.
A Question for Adoption Agencies
Cameron asks adoption agencies how well they are incorporating adoptee voices and adoptee led research into their practice and policy.
Two Reasons to Stay in Bloom
Roxas-Chua shares their artwork and writings to help us understand the complexities of being adopted, the ongoing journey to come to terms with who we are
Adoptee Birthdays
Maars shares the complex feelings that arise on her birthday as a transracial intercountry adoptee.
Ande shares about Adoptee Anger
Ande shares about Adoptee Anger as a Late Discovery Adoptee thru' the ICAV series that explores what this emotion is about from a lived experience perspective.
Music Inspired by my Bolivian Origins as an Adoptee
Jo shares the inspiration behind his music which draws him closer to his Bolivian roots.
From Tokenism to Social Justice
Marie Gardom shares how we can move from Tokenism to Social Justice in adoption. Inclusion of adoptees needs to recognise adoptees as the experts of our experience.