Tag: irregular adoptions

Responses to Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Reckoning

On By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Activism, adoption and power imbalance, Adoption policy, Adoption questions, adoption reform, Adoption Research, Adoptive Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Illicit Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, intercountry adoption investigation, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Reparation in Adoption, right to identity, Rights in Adoption, State responsibilities in adoption, Sweden, UN Joint Statement Illegal AdoptionLeave a comment

Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Commission report sparks adoptee, parent and agency responses on apology, support, reform, reparations and accountability.

Degrees of Being Trafficked in Intercountry Adoption

On By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Adoptive Country, Australia, Birth Country, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Rights in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?2 Comments

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