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Tag: searching for origins
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.
The Adoption Fairy Tale
Sara shares the challenges of post reunion.
Alone
Debbie shares the secrets and lies in her adoption from Iran to the UK.
French-Indonesian
Artwork by Indonesian adoptee Marie-Atina.
Bolivian Family Searching
Atamhi shares about his search for first family and activism as an adoptee.
Appreciating Country and Culture
Laney shares to adoptive parents about appreciating our Country & Culture.
Life Lessons from an Adoptee – Part 1
Part 1 of Life Lessons by Tamieka Small
my inner borealis, mi boreal interior
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
Why?
Jayme asks why his parents adopted?
staring at your stone, mirando fijamente a su piedra
Jesse Alonso visits his mothers grave stone.
two lives, dos vidas
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
When It’s Time to Go Home
Maria Heckinger shares about her return to birth country, Greece.
her name was maité, su nombre era maité
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
prince of spain
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
Embracing our Origins
We explore the intercountry adoptee journey to embrace our ancestry.
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 …
My DNA History
DNA Brief Hansen Short 2018 Click on the link above. You will then be asked to OPEN or SAVE the file. If you want to watch it - click OPEN. If you want to keep the file - click SAVE. This is a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show with audio inserted in most pages. Click onto …
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.