A Colombian Australian intercountry adoptee shares their story of reunification with biological family.
Tag: searching for family
Searching for my family in the Philippines
Desiree shares about searching for Filippino family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts Webinar
ICAVs newest webinar and perspective paper on searching in intercountry adoption bringing you experiences of intercountry adoptees from around the world.
Vietnamese adopted brother and sister find each other through DNA
An unexpected DNA match between brother and sister, both separately adopted out of Vietnam to different countries, provides a unique story as intercountry adoptees.
Search and Reunion in Intercountry Adoption
Lynelle provides a summary of ICAVs 2016 Perspective Paper: Search & Reunion - Impacts & Outcomes
Greek Intercountry Adoptee Advocacy
Linda shares her letter to the Greek Government asking for Greek intercountry adoptee rights and support needs to be met. Adoptee advocacy.
The Complexities of Adoption
백현숙 (Baek Hyun Sook) shares the memories evoked each year remembering the transition into adopted life. The complexities, the emotions growing up and learning the truth.
A Picture Conveys a Thousand Emotions
Sara shares her memories of childhood with her brothers by the well in Korea, just before her father gave them away to an orphanage. She is adopted to the USA.
Adopted to Spain
Andrea Pelaez Castro shares about being adopted to Spain from Colombia.
We are more than Numbers!
Brenna talks about Korean adoption statistics and how adoptees are more than these numbers.
One More Day Without You
Pradeep shares about his mother's birth date.
Forget Your Past
by Bina Mirjam de Boer adopted from India to the Netherlands.Originally shared at Bina Coaching. Forget your past! I was told this sentence 5 years ago today, when I visited one of my children's homes for the 2nd time. The woman who received me wasn't interested in my questions about my past and didn't even …
The Stolen Children of Cambodia
Lizzie shares her project to explore her return to Cambodia.
I Want My Brothers Back
Erika shares the complications after reunion with her biological siblings.
Bolivian Family Searching
Atamhi shares about his search for first family and activism as an adoptee.
when mothers and fathers run like water, cuando madres y padres corre como el agua
when mothers and fathers run like water
staring at your stone, mirando fijamente a su piedra
Jesse Alonso visits his mothers grave stone.
Show Love
Kev shares about love.
Telling My Mother
Maria Heckinger shares the emotional journey of searching for her Greek roots.
her name was maité, su nombre era maité
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
Excerpt: First Letter to my Iranian Father
Iranian adoptee shares her thoughts (excerpt) to her new found Iranian father.
Lost Siblings
Remembering My Youth As a child, I remember playing near the burn pits that laid by the small village of unpainted traditional Korean style homes (Hanoks). They nestled below a small outcrop of mountains, located in central Korea. My brother grabbed my hand to take me to see the prize he had found lying in …
Korean Killdeers
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. …
Search and Reunion for Intercountry Adoptees
Search and Reunion in intercountry adoption: a compliation of over 40 intercountry adoptees with lived experience.