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A Life has been Lived Before Adoption

On August 28, 2022January 21, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adjustment and Transition, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Ethiopia, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Meseret shares about the complexities of being adopted at an older age, having memories of life before adoption, learning how to trust her new adoptive family.

Grieving for the Child of the Past

On December 13, 2021June 1, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee vulnerability, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Philippines, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA1 Comment

Dan R Moen, Filipino adoptee and talented artist shares a 3 part series of paintings depicting the internal struggles an intercountry adoptee traverses.

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