A Colombian Australian intercountry adoptee shares their story of reunification with biological family.
Tag: International adoption
A different type of Reunion
Damian shares about a different type of reunion, not with biological family but with an adopted sibling who got returned to the State in Australia.
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 Sri Lanka
Gabbie shares about searching for Sri Lankan 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 for my family in Colombia
Jose shares about searching for Colombian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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.
My feelings regarding my first mom
Maria shares on how to practically access her younger years emotions about her Chilean mother, an exercise that she was never encouraged to do while young.
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.
AntiRacism Online Workshops for Transracial Adoptive Parents
ICAV and HUE provide an online workshop for adoptees and families to explore race, racism, how to be an antiracism ally as some of our core issues in adoption.
Dear Korea, About Mia*
kim thompson shares her letter to Korea about her friend who was adopted and committed suicide in her 30s
Adoptee Grief and Zen Meditation
Desiree shares her journey of acknowledging and embracing feelings of grief and loss that arise during Zen meditation. We all try to find paths towards healing.
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.
Sensitively Responding to Fears of Abandonment
Lyla shares an awesome way her adoptive parents assisted her with abandonment fears - a rational fear all adoptees have borne out of losing their first family.
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.
How to Truly Save and Help a Child
Jessica shares the realities of intercountry adoption and what people can do to help a vulnerable child in need, challenging the usual narrative of adoption.
Being Adopted
Marcella shares on how being adopted has impacted her being.
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.
Restoring my Korean Citizenship
Stephanie shares about the process of restoring her Korean Citizenship which was severed via intercountry adoption to the Netherlands.
Grief in Adoption
Cosette shares deep feelings of grief during her life, coming to terms with all she's lost and might never know. Being adopted means living deep grief.