Adoption Across a Lifetime: Why Reform Must Move Beyond the Child-Centric Lens

On April 23, 2026April 23, 2026 By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee Activism, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoption policy, Adoption questions, adoption reform, Advocacy, Alternatives to Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, DNA Searching, Family Preservation, Forced separation, Generational trauma, human rights abuses in adoption, identity restoration, Importance of Connections to Origins, intercountry adoption investigation, Intercultural struggles, Is adoption the best option, Justice Routes, legal identity erasure, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Post Adoption Support, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Reparation in Adoption, reparative justice in adoption, Return to Birth Country, Return to Birth Country, right to identity, Rights in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, State responsibilities in adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRCLeave a comment

Lynelle's opening keynote on intercountry adoption, exploring identity, lifelong impacts, and the urgent need to reform systems beyond a child-centric lens.

The most invisible adoptees

On February 8, 2025February 9, 2025 By lynellelongIn Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptee Anger, adoptee in prison, Adoptee vulnerability, Alcohol and drug addiction, Australia, Citizenship in Adoption, colourblindness in adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Deportation of Adoptees, Difficult discussions in adoption, Exploring adoptive parent journey, Generational trauma, Importance of Connections to Origins, incarcerated adoptee, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Post Adoption Support, Racism in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Sri Lanka, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle raises awareness of those intercountry adoptees who are incarcerated, an unheard voice.

Adopted to Norway

On February 14, 2024February 14, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Book, Complexities in Adoption, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Norway, Poetry by Adoptees, South Korea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption1 Comment

Vår Benum is adopted from Sth Korea to Norway and shares artwork created for her poetry, describing the lifelong journey of being an intercountry adoptee.

Dear Mum and Dad

On April 3, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Australia, First Nations Canada, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Racism in Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Jen writes to her original parents expressing the sorrow and grief of never meeting them and her life being adopted to Australia as a First Nations Canadian.

Olivia Atkocaitis is not just a tabloid headline

On February 18, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Abuse in Adoption, China, Gratitude in Adoption, USALeave a comment

Maya challenges us to see beyond the tabloids and to give adoptees their space to represent themselves and be heard with their authentic real voices.

Suicide Amongst Adoptees

On October 5, 2022January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn 1993 Hague Convention, Abandonment and Rejection, Abuse in Adoption, Adoptee Anger, Adoption and Disability, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Racism in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, South Korea, Suicide, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Hilbrand shares about the trauma in relinquishment and adoption and the connection with suicide amongst adoptees.

If the Moon Could Be My Birthmother Now

On May 5, 2022April 20, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Roxas-Chua shares their artwork and thoughts when contemplating their birthmother, giving tenderness to self and coming to terms with being an adopted person.

JD shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 25, 2022February 18, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

JD shares as a Filipino adoptee about anger: anger for the abuse, the lies, the rejection, the impacts and lack of supports.

InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)

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