Tag: rights of the child
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Cancelling My Adoption
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in Adoptee Anger, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Discharge Annulment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Denmark, Family Preservation, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Racism in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionNetra Sommer is adopted from India to Denmark and endured abuse in her adoption and talks about undoing her adoption and the lengthy process to reclaim herself.
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Bolivian Family Searching
Atamhi shares about his search for first family and activism as an adoptee.
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Who am I now?
By Maria Diemar from her blog at I own my Story Maria Diemar Who I am now, after my life story changed I always thought that my mom gave me up for adoptionI was an abandoned childI learnt to believe that adoption is something beautifulEven though it hurtEven though I felt abandonedEven though I felt…
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Adoptee Activism in America
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in 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee Activism, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALynelle shares about the importance of including adoptee lived experience at the Adoption Symposium for the US Department of State in 2020.
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The Cycle of Harm in Celebrity Adoptions
Adoption is not heroism. It does not fight poverty, disease nor the root causes of inequality. Adoption doesn’t even raise awareness about the real causes of poverty, inequality, parent-child separations, disease or social immobility. Instead it creates idolatry of those who look to adoption in a world which stigmatises infertility, disease, poverty and poor access…
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A Filipino Adoptee’s Plea to Not Be Erased
Dear Intercountry Adoption Board (ICAB) of the Philippines, I’m a 33-year-old Filipino American adoptee and I refuse to be erased. I refuse to be ignored. I was born in the Philippines and it was not my choice to leave. But it is my choice to return as an adult and to regain my citizenship. Because,…
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Exceptions to the Rule
A post from an adopter on my Facebook page got me thinking about an issue. Is there an exception to the rule where intercountry adoptions should be allowed? The woman stated that, “All 13 of my children from China have special needs. Some pretty severe. One thing for sure … no-one in-country stepped up to…
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New Connections
At this current moment I’m flying thousands of kilometres through the air to reach my destination – The Hague, Netherlands. It’s going to take me 24 hours and you all know what that’s like – cramped in a stuffy space with people coughing, kids crying, airplane food, almost-can’t-turn-around-in spaces they call “toilets” and trying to…
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Adoptee Citizenship
Rachel Kim Tschida share her special essay on the topic of American Citizenship for intercountry adoptees.
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The Crying Girl
How the Korean Government Fails I was stationed in Korea for eight years and have made more than a dozen trips to Korea since I left in 2007. During my last visit to Itaewon, I came across a small bronze statue of a girl sitting on a chair, next to an empty chair, located at…
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Rehomed & Abandoned Too Many Times
Ethiopian adoptee shares her journey of loss and more loss in relinquishment and adoption.
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What Adoptees Lose in Intercountry Adoption
I normally tiptoe around adoption and never say the A word because people just don’t respond well to “adoptee anger“. But during the month of November, I feel it is appropriate to air my feelings on what I have anger about, in intercountry adoption. I hate that our original identities are ignored and get obliterated…
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Not Existing
Lynelle shares how difficult it can be not knowing who we are or having any documentation.
