lifelong supports in adoption | InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)

Sensitively Responding to Fears of Abandonment

Feb 14, 2023

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in Abandonment and Rejection, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, China, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Religion and Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA

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.

Relinquishment, Adoption and Grief

Dec 1, 2021

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in Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Sense of Belonging, The Netherlands, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption

Bina shares about the loss that goes unrecognised in adoption during November Adoption Awareness Month and highlights the necessity of support for grieving.