Tag: trauma in adoption
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Olivia Atkocaitis is not just a tabloid headline
Maya challenges us to see beyond the tabloids and to give adoptees their space to represent themselves and be heard with their authentic real voices.
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My View of Adoption has Changed with Time
Maria shares how her views and understanding of adoption have changed over time as she’s connected herself more to the adoption community and educated herself.
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Sold via adoption on the Gypsy black market in Greece
Roula shares her story of being sold as a baby by a Greek doctor who stole gypsy babies and trafficked them via adoption to foreign countries. The impacts, the ongoing complexities.
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Adoption, Abuse & Exclusion from the Royal Commission
Lynelle’s part 1 of 3 on Sexual Abuse within Adoption.
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Who am I now?
By Maria Diemar from her blog at I own my Story Maria Diemar Who I am now, after my life story changed I always thought that my mom gave me up for adoptionI was an abandoned childI learnt to believe that adoption is something beautifulEven though it hurtEven though I felt abandonedEven though I felt…
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Coming Out of the Adoptee Fog
Mark Hagland shares about awakening our awareness to the impacts of being adopted.
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Leadership in the Intercountry Adoptee Community
Abby Forero-Hilty shares about what characteristics and traits are needed in mature adoptee leaders, based on the servant – leadership model.
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Not Good Enough
I was an artistic child and I spent much of my free time drawing when I was a child. I drew my interpretation of Star Wars. I was not allowed to watch the movie because my religious parents believed it was evil to try and interpret the future. Our hired hand found my drawings in…
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Yellow Snow
I grew up on a dairy farm in rural Minnesota. Minnesota is a state, located in the north central region of the United States and borders Canada. Most people do not know the most northern point of the lower 48 states is located in Minnesota. It should be no surprise to learn Minnesota ranks in…
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Vulnerable children are not blank slates
Lynelle writes critically about what could be gained from including adult intercountry adoptees in policy discussions.
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Trauma of Transition for Older Aged Adoptees
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in Adjustment and Transition, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionOlder age adoptees struggle to transition from their first life to their second. What can be done to reduce the trauma of transition in older age adoptions?
