Christla Petitberghien and her academic peers write critically about intercountry adoption from South Korea, looking at the reproductive rights of women.
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Letter to President Moon
by Michelle Y. K. Piper adopted from Sth Korea to Australia. President Moon, To you, I may be merely a statistic. A Number. Name: 86c-1335. Born: “bastard” Abandoned by: Bio Mother These are the words inked into the brittle pages “cataloguing” my birth, 4 ½ months before I was separated from my mother, exiled from my motherland, …
South Korean Adoptions: An Economic Analysis
CFO and Korean adoptee, Jayme investigates the economics of Sth Korea's adoptees sent out abroad.
The Other Half Left Behind
- Many adoptees were sent to orphanages before they were adopted and many do not remember the experiences they had before being sent to their forever homes. At one time, we adoptees may have begun the same journey in life as one of the millions of orphans placed in orphanages. However, a choice made by …