Meredith shares the range of emotions she is experiencing since the announcement by China, her birth country, that all intercountry adoptions will stop.
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Is Adoption Truly a Mother’s Choice?
Yung Fierens shares her Mother's Day thoughts to remind us to think critically about whether Korean mothers are truly consenting to their children being adopted.
Is Adoption Really the Best Option?
Haitian adoptee Judith Craig shares her views since Judge Barrett's nomination and adoptions from Haiti.
COVID Makes Me Rethink My Birth Country
How does COVID-19 challenge assumptions about our birth countries?
Can Intercountry Adoption be Ethical? Does it do Good?
Are you doing good by intercountry adopting?
Alternatives to Adoption?
ICAV Blogger Collaborative Series #3
What is in our “Best Interests” as Intercountry Adopted People?
I find it interesting to ponder why the concept Best Interests of the Child in intercountry adoption is discussed and decisions made without substantial research on the long term outcomes in intercountry adoption. When I say long term, I mean decades to show how intercountry adoption impacts us through the various stages of life. Most …
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Adoption: Neat & Tidy? Not So Much!
Jessica Davis shares the complexities of intercountry adoption gone wrong.
Understanding Adoption and Birth Country
Colombian adoptee shares
We have been Brought into a Place of Hate
Vincente Mollestad shares about the death of a Chinese adoptee, murdered.
Dear Stranger
A letter I wrote to my adoptive father The last time I called home, my adoptive father asked me to come and visit. I spoke to my biological sister who was raised with me and she told me the last time she was home, our adoptive father apologized to her. I'm guessing he will do …
The Other Half Left Behind
- Many adoptees were sent to orphanages before they were adopted and many do not remember the experiences they had before being sent to their forever homes. At one time, we adoptees may have begun the same journey in life as one of the millions of orphans placed in orphanages. However, a choice made by …
Korean Killdeers
I was reared on a small dairy farm that rested on the edge of the Red River Valley on the Minnesota side. I grew up in a rural farming community that was filled with a lush green forest of corn, amber waves of grain and intermittent dots of farm homesteads covered with thick deciduous trees. …
Why is it important to have Intercountry Adoptee Voices?
Lynelle writes about the importance of having voices from those who live the experience of adoption, involved in policy and debate.