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Intercountry Adoption Search for Origins

On By lynellelongIn Adoptee Support, Adoptees Educate, adoption conversations, Adoption Conversations, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoption policy, adoption reform, Australia, Canada, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, DNA Searching, Finding biological mother, identity restoration, Importance of Connections to Origins, Key Themes in Search and Reunion, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not ready for Reunion, Origins Search, Peer support, Post Adoption Support, Return to Birth Country, Return to Birth Country, right to identity, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Searching but no reunion in adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Intercountry adoptee Lynelle Long explores search for origins, identity, records, DNA, reunion, culture, belonging and the lifelong support adoptees need.

What I’ve missed out on in being adopted internationally

On By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee vulnerability, Australia, colourblindness in adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, incarcerated adoptee, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Post Adoption Support, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Sri Lanka, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Jonti shares his journey of exploring what his losses have been in being intercountry transracially adopted from Sri Lanka to Australia.

Search and Reunion in Intercountry Adoption

On By lynellelongIn Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Birth Parents Searching, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, DNA Searching, Importance of Connections to Origins, Key Themes in Search and Reunion, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Not ready for Reunion, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Lynelle provides a summary of ICAVs 2016 Perspective Paper: Search & Reunion - Impacts & Outcomes