Sophie shares as a Chinese intercountry adoptee.
Tag: transracial adoption
Stranger Than Fiction
In third grade, I was in Mrs. Peterson’s class and given the assignment to do a family history project. I asked my adoptive parents about the project and they stated my Aunt Eirene had worked on the family tree and traced back across several hundred years. My family automatically skipped the fact that my own …
Adoptee Citizenship
Rachel Kim Tschida share her special essay on the topic of American Citizenship for intercountry adoptees.
The Crying Girl
How the Korean Government Fails I was stationed in Korea for eight years and have made more than a dozen trips to Korea since I left in 2007. During my last visit to Itaewon, I came across a small bronze statue of a girl sitting on a chair, next to an empty chair, located at …
Rehomed & Abandoned Too Many Times
Ethiopian adoptee shares her journey of loss and more loss in relinquishment and adoption.
What Adoptees Lose in Intercountry Adoption
I normally tiptoe around adoption and never say the A word because people just don't respond well to "adoptee anger". But during the month of November, I feel it is appropriate to air my feelings on what I have anger about, in intercountry adoption. I hate that our original identities are ignored and get obliterated …
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Four Murdered Chinese Adoptees
Joey shares after the death of 4 chinese adoptees.
Being Alone
I get up in the morning and I try. That's basically what it's like every morning as an adult adoptee. Whenever I look back in my mind, my past stretches past a million acres of difficult terrain that's emotionally challenging and left psychological imprints on me. An adoptive family I never got that close with. …
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 …
Asian female adoptee review of Crazy Rich Asians
Asian intercountry adoptee Lynelle shares her thoughts of Crazy Rich Asians film.
Mental Health and Adoption
Lynelle writes critically about the lack of understanding and support for intercountry adoptees who live with mental illness.
Dear Belonging,
Perhaps to some, You are a dear friend and a faithful companion. To others, You are found in spurts and moments, and still to others, You are an elusive dream in their nightmares. To me, You are a far off figure standing still in the distance. Throughout the years, I have caught the sparkle in …
Adoptee desire to know the Truth
Indian adoptee from Belgium shares her story of adoption.
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 …
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 …
What Intercountry Adoptees Need
Lynelle shares from dialogue within ICAV what intercountry adoptees need, having lived the experience.
Cuts You Deep
Whilst studying for my undergraduate degree in History, I found the similarities of my childhood and reading the history of Nazi Germany opened up my old anxieties. The interrogation methods of the SS were like pages read out about my own childhood. My adopted mother acted like a Concentration Camp guard, always on the lookout …
Adoptive Parent Decision Making in Intercountry Adoption
When adoption becomes politicized, there’s a tendency to dehumanize the child. The child is not a political pawn, some poor waif smuggled out of a war-torn country into a loving home. But when media articles portray adoptions this way, the child’s developing identity is impacted by these prejudices.
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. …
Who Am I?
Jayme questions who he is as an intercountry adoptee from Sth Korea.
Vulnerable children are not blank slates
Lynelle critically examines the gains from including adult intercountry adoptees in policy discussions and shares Joey's story, a male Chinese adoptee.
Colombian Intercountry Adoptee Anthology
The first Colombian intercountry adoptee anthology that shares the many complexities of being adopted from Colombia, edited and compiled by Abby Forero-Hilty.
Memories and Feelings of an Older Aged Adoptee
Being adopted at older ages brings with it more complex issues to sort thru and need specialised support for. Min shares her story as a Thai adoptee.
Experiences of Adoption are all Different but Share much
Our adoptee experiences share so much in common but are also so unique. Here we share a Korean - Australian adoptee's story in her own words.