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- ‘Side By Side’ Documentary Eloquently Voices Memories Of Korean Adoptees korea memoirs documentary
- Young Adult SFF That Reflects My Journey as an Adoptee literature
- Lana Condor and the Adoptee’s Place in Asian American Storytelling tv
- Poems By a Sixteen-Year-Old Adoptee china poetry
- In debut memoir, Nicole Chung explores growing up as a Korean-American adoptee korea memoirs
- New Series Sets Out to Challenge Stigma of Adoptee Experience korea memoirs documentary
Birth Family
- For 50 Years, I Was Denied the Story of My Birth legislation adopteerights adopteesbecomeparents birthcertificates
- Texan Adoptees Are Fighting for the Right to Access Their Own Birth Certificates legislation adopteerights birthcertificates
- Cold War-Era Greek Adoptee Finds Her Family, Founds Mission to Help Others birthfamilysearch DNA greece
- Friends find out they're biological sisters years after they met working at the same restaurant reunionstories birthfamilysearch birthfamilyrelationship DNA
- The birth search of South Korean adoptees korea documentary birthfamilysearch
- Francisco Partners is acquiring MyHeritage, sources say for $600M birthfamilysearch DNA
- For a mother forced to give up her child, decades of grief, shame and secrets adopteerights memoirs trauma birthfamilysearch birthparentperspective
- 'Hope For Joy, Be Prepared For Catastrophe': Stories From Listeners Looking For Their Birth Parents reunionstories birthfamilysearch birthfamilyrelationship DNA
- Adoption ‘is for children, not for people who wish to be parents’ adopteerights birthcertificates birthfamilysearch ireland
- As a teen, I chose adoption. Why are stories like mine missing from the abortion debate? evangelicaladoption memoirs birthparentperspective
- Nice to Meet You, Mom. Now Let’s Go Into Quarantine. korea reunionstories birthfamilyrelationship
- Late Discovery, Revisited memoirs birthfamilyrelationship latediscovery
- I longed to meet my birth parents but they only ended up disappointing me reunionstories birthfamilyrelationship
- My birth parents told me they'd been waiting for my call reunionstories birthfamilysearch birthfamilyrelationship
- Despite Mixed Results, South Asian Adoptees Turn to DNA Tests adopteerights india birthfamilysearch
- Adoptees can set up mirror tree on Ancestry to find parents, ancestors birthfamilysearch
- ‘Tell Me Who My Mother Is’: A Korean Adoptee Seeks Her Roots korea legislation adopteerights reunionstories birthfamilysearch
- In connecting Chinese adoptees to birth families, couple makes discovery about China's one-child policy china birthfamilysearch
- Finding biological parents abroad is an uphill struggle for adoptees legislation adopteerights adopteesbecomeparents india birthfamilysearch
- I Found My Birth Mother. It Didn't Rock My Life — And That's OK reunionstories memoirs birthfamilysearch birthfamilyrelationship
- When One of Me Suddenly Became Three reunionstories memoirs birthparentperspective
Identity
- Chinese American Adoptee Uses Social Media To Share The Realities Of Navigating Adoption china trauma
- 'Am I Asian Enough?' Adoptees Struggle To Make Sense Of Spike In Anti-Asian Violence korea china india vocabulary trauma
- 'Bling Empire' Star Kevin Kreider Says Netflix Show Is About 'Real Asian-American Stories' korea tv
- 'It's equal parts beautiful and tragic.' The profound loneliness of being adopted. reunionstories memoirs adoptiveparents trauma birthfamilyrelationship
- I was adopted outside of the US and have disabilities. I'm tired of the savior narrative among white adoptive parents. colombia evangelicaladoption adoptiveparents
- Where Is the Gospel in Adoption? evangelicaladoption gospelandadoption vocabulary
- The Fraught Language of Adoption memoirs vocabulary adoptiveparents
- What I’m really thinking: the adult adoptee memoirs
- Please don’t tell me I was lucky to be adopted memoirs vocabulary trauma
Legal Issues
- 'Proxy adoption,' the IR-4 visa and US citizenship for adoptees from Korea korea legislation adopteerights citizenship
- Netherlands Halts Adoptions From Abroad After Exposing Past Abuses legislation adopteerights
- 'I just needed to find my family': the scandal of Chile's stolen children birthfamilysearch chile
- Adoptees say ‘we are not a thing’ trauma
- A baby's death casts shadow on South Korea's adoption industry korea trauma
- Nearly a year later, Rebecca Trimble is still in deportation limbo mexico deportation legislation citizenship
- ‘You love this country, and it’s taken from you’: Adoption doesn’t guarantee US citizenship deportation legislation colombia adopteerights citizenship
- A painful truth: Guatemalan adoptees learn they were fraudulently given away guatemala
- Adoptees Can Now Access Birth Certificates Under New NY Law legislation adopteerights birthcertificates
- Long Road Home: Local adoptee’s fight for access to birth certificate, medical history legislation adopteerights birthcertificates
- ‘I’m an American’: Deported adoptee struggles in Brazil deportation legislation adopteerights brazil citizenship
Mental Health
- My parents hid the fact I was adopted, but I instinctively knew reunionstories memoirs grief adoptiveparents trauma birthfamilysearch
- Adopted Children Have Already Been ‘Re-Homed’ gospelandadoption grief vocabulary
- New foundation focuses on helping Korean American adoptees and families find out where they fit in korea
- Finding the missing piece: What happens when adoptees become parents adopteesbecomeparents memoirs grief
Race
- What a Black adoptee wishes her White parents had told her memoirs
- Transracial adoptees say their parents need to talk to them about race
- ‘We’re not projects’: Transracial adoptees insist on being seen
- Dr. Ibram Kendi, Amy Coney Barrett and Evangelical Adoption evangelicaladoption gospelandadoption
- Transracial adoption: 'I've been accused of kidnapping my white child' adopteesbecomeparents adoptiveparents