Korea’s Revised Adoption Process

On July 22, 2021July 27, 2025 By jaymekyopoIn 1993 Hague Convention, Abuse in Adoption, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Agencies, Adoption policy, adoption reform, Birth Country, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Family Preservation, Gratitude in Adoption, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, intercountry adoption investigation, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Politics of Adoption, Post Adoption Support, Rights in Adoption, South Korea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Jayme Hansen applauds South Korea's revised adoption process more aligned with Hague Convention guidelines, creating more oversight of vulnerable children.

Why?

On January 20, 2020November 22, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Jayme asks why his parents adopted?

South Korean Adoptions: An Economic Analysis

On January 2, 2019November 22, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn Uncategorized1 Comment

CFO and Korean adoptee, Jayme investigates the economics of Sth Korea's adoptees sent out abroad.

Dear Stranger

On August 5, 2018November 22, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn Uncategorized2 Comments

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 …

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My DNA History

On February 27, 2018November 22, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

DNA Brief Hansen Short 2018 Click on the link above. You will then be asked to OPEN or SAVE the file. If you want to watch it - click OPEN. If you want to keep the file - click SAVE. This is a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show with audio inserted in most pages. Click onto …

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Parenthood Made Me Better

On February 19, 2018December 30, 2024 By jaymekyopoIn Adoptees as parents, Complexities in Adoption, Family Preservation, Generational trauma, Importance of Connections to Origins, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Sense of Belonging, South Korea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA1 Comment

Jayme shares about how becoming a parent himself has changed his life and perspective as an intercountry adoptee from South Korea.

The Other Half Left Behind

On January 31, 2018November 22, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

- 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 …

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Yellow Snow

On December 20, 2017October 20, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn Uncategorized8 Comments

I grew up on a dairy farm in rural Minnesota. Minnesota is a state, located in the north central region of the United States and borders Canada. Most people do not know the most northern point of the lower 48 states is located in Minnesota. It should be no surprise to learn Minnesota ranks in …

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Korean Killdeers

On December 11, 2017November 22, 2020 By jaymekyopoIn Uncategorized1 Comment

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. …

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Who Am I?

On November 17, 2017February 6, 2024 By jaymekyopoIn Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Jayme questions who he is as an intercountry adoptee from Sth Korea.

Trauma of Transition for Older Aged Adoptees

On February 19, 2017February 6, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption1 Comment

Older age adoptees struggle to transition from their first life to their second. What can be done to reduce the trauma of transition in older age adoptions?

InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)

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