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To Know Your Origins is a Privilege!

On July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 By lynellelongIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Lynelle shares the life experience of intercountry adoptees who don't know anything about their origins.

Maori adoptee letter to NZ Minister of Justice

On May 14, 2021May 10, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Bev Reweti, transracial Maori adoptee, shares about her fight for justice and recognition of the historical wrongs to Maori adoptees like herself, in New Zealand.

What is in our “Best Interests” as Intercountry Adopted People?

On October 22, 2019November 3, 2026 By lynellelongIn 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees are not blank slates, Adoptees Educate, adoption and power imbalance, adoption conversations, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoption policy, Adoption questions, adoption reform, adoptive family dialogue, Biological Connections Matter, colourblindness in adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Forced separation, Generational trauma, Gratitude in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Intercultural struggles, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Listen to Adoptees, Not Knowing in Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Peer support, Politics of Adoption, Post Adoption Support, Racial Mirrors, Relationships Struggles, Return to Birth Country, Return to Birth Country, Rights in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Survival mechanisms, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

A collection of adoptee thoughts on "Best Interests of the Child" should mean.