Dear Korea, About Mia*

On March 14, 2023July 27, 2025 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptees Educate, Grief and Loss, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, South Korea, Suicide, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

kim thompson shares her letter to Korea about her friend who was adopted and committed suicide in her 30s

Suicide Amongst Adoptees

On October 5, 2022January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn 1993 Hague Convention, Abandonment and Rejection, Abuse in Adoption, Adoptee Anger, Adoption and Disability, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Racism in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, South Korea, Suicide, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Hilbrand shares about the trauma in relinquishment and adoption and the connection with suicide amongst adoptees.

The Dehumanisation of an Adoptee

On October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Kayla discusses the dehumanising effects being adopted had or her life, the role Christianity played, and the importance to reclaim our own truth as an adoptee.

Review of Reckoning with The Primal Wound

On September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 By lynellelongIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Lynelle provides thoughts after watching Rebecca's Sansom's documentary Reckoning with the Primal Wound, an adoptee led film on the impacts of our separation.

I Lost My Mother Twice

On June 18, 2021May 27, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

by Linzi Ibrahim adopted from Sri Lanka to Australia, founder of Sri Lankan Adoptees. I miss you every day but most of all today. The pain never fades. You were taken from me twice, I have grieved you twice. You lived the hardest life and still managed to be the most incredible human. You were …

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Adopted Men Only Online

On May 17, 2021May 10, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Niels shares about joining in with a group of adopted men to talk about relinquishment and adoption, how it impacts their lives.

Adoptees Need Mental Health Services

On April 20, 2021April 2, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Christina speaks about the need for mental health services for intercountry adoptees who live many traumas.

Grief for Mother Lasts Forever

On March 17, 2021March 15, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

by Melanie Kleintz adopted from Peru to Germany. Between 24 December 2020 and 1 January 2021, a total of 6 adoptees from Europe took their own lives, a Black Week in Europe for adoptees. The number of unreported cases is definitely higher. All could not clarify their origins, their pain was too strong, and they …

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Adopted to Spain

On February 24, 2021June 28, 2025 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Andrea Pelaez Castro shares about being adopted to Spain from Colombia.

어머니 (Mother)

On February 6, 2021February 12, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized2 Comments

Michelle Piper shares the grief and loss of relinquishment and adoption, the multitude of questions, the lifelong emotional journey.

Broken

On February 1, 2021February 12, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized3 Comments

by Yolanda, a transracial adoptee (of Jamaican, black mixed with Chipawaue Indian origins) raised in the USA into a black American adoptive family. Artwork by Yolanda I was adopted at seven months old and my adoptee story isn't a good one. Basically I grew up in a religious family full of mental, physical, emotional and …

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