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P.O. Box 7420
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Adoption Registry Connect Adoption Registry Connect is a worldwide adoptee and birth parent search registry designed to reunite adoptees with their birth parents and siblings |
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Holt International Children's Services Forum Index - Adoptees Today |
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No age limit on seeking birth parents Laws giving adopted children and their birth parents greater access to information about each other are among a raft of measures coming into effect in NSW |
Australia
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Mounties helps Origins (Fairfield City Champion) Origins, a support group is designed to help women who were being re-traumatised each time experts and health professional minimised and invalidated the severe emotional anguish, trauma, and grief left in the wake of their adoption experience. |
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No age limit on seeking birth parents Laws giving adopted children and their birth parents greater access to information about each other are among a raft of measures coming into effect in NSW |
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Search for a lifelong answer (Star News) When Mary was 10 years old, the song line "I was born under a wandering star" was playing in her home. Wondering about her own birth, she asked her mother what time she had arrived. |
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Teenz Connection Teenage Adoptees Getting Together |
Canada
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A stranger in her own skin From babies shipped in boxes to Angelina Jolie's growing brood, the history of international adoption follows chaos and calamity around the world |
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Adopted Canadians Face Many Hurdles (The Canadian) |
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Canadian Adoptees for Truth and Openness |
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Origins Canada: Supporting People Separated By Adoption - Happy Adoptees I am not the happy and grateful adoptee that you want me to be. Don't get me wrong. I was happy and grateful for almost 45 years, or so I believed. |
China
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Chinese Adoptee Links Linking Generations of Adoptees and Friends Worldwide |
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Chinese Pen Pal Scheme Designed for children 8 years and older who have been adopted from China, Hong Kong or Taiwan. Pen-Pals are matched and children can communicate with their peers in countries such as the US, UK, Ireland and Australia |
Germany
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International Adoption: Opening Pandora's Box I was born to a German mother and a German father on German soil, one of thousands of German children adopted by Americans from the 1950s through the 1970s. |
Korea, South
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Adopted children discover their Korean roots (Seattle Times) |
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Adopted Korea (and afterwards) |
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Adopted Korean Connection AK Connection serves the Minnesota adult adopted Korean community. Enrich yourself by attending various events and learning about opportunities that will connect you to other adult Korean adoptees, their families, networks, and friends. |
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GOAL - Global Overseas Adoptees' Link |
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International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA) |
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Korean Adoptees Survey (by Holt) |
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More Korean Families Adopt Children Openly (Digital Chosunilbo) |
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One Woman's Struggle for a Korean Identity |
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Origami Crane I had been angry all of my life because I was an odd construction of a person: a Korean-looking girl on the outside, a Caucasian-sounding girl on the inside. I didn't know who I was, and I was having a hard time accepting the parts I did know about myself |
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Overseas Adopted Koreans |
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The adopted Koreans of Sweden and the Korean adoption issue Paper by Tobias Hübinette |
Philippines
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Filipino Adoptees Network (FAN) |
Sweden
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The adopted Koreans of Sweden and the Korean adoption issue Paper by Tobias Hübinette |
USA
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International Adoption: Opening Pandora's Box I was born to a German mother and a German father on German soil, one of thousands of German children adopted by Americans from the 1950s through the 1970s. |
Vietnam
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Adopted Vietnamese International |
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Stories about me by Leonie Simmons Leonie Simmons was born in Vietnam and adopted to an Australian family. Five years ago she returned to the place of her birth. This is her story. |
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Suanne finds her birth family, Vietnamese adoption Story Part 1 |
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Suanne finds her birth family, Vietnamese adoption Story Part 2 |
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Suanne finds her birth family, Vietnamese adoption Story Part 3 |
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Suanne finds her birth family, Vietnamese adoption Story Part 4 |
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War orphans find bond in adoption Prospective parents are eager to share experiences with children from homeland. |
Adoptees
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Adoption Registry Connect Adoption Registry Connect is a worldwide adoptee and birth parent search registry designed to reunite adoptees with their birth parents and siblings |
Rainbow Kids Website /showurl.php?url=142
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Origami Crane I had been angry all of my life because I was an odd construction of a person: a Korean-looking girl on the outside, a Caucasian-sounding girl on the inside. I didn't know who I was, and I was having a hard time accepting the parts I did know about myself |
Birth Parents
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Adoption Registry Connect Adoption Registry Connect is a worldwide adoptee and birth parent search registry designed to reunite adoptees with their birth parents and siblings |
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Make No Assumptions Birth parents will soon be able to trace their adopted children through intermediaries |
Expat Parents
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When Adoption Goes Wrong (Disruption and Dissolution) People all over the world are talking about the return of an adopted Korean child by a Dutch diplomat and his wife. |
Articles
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International Adoption: Opening Pandora's Box I was born to a German mother and a German father on German soil, one of thousands of German children adopted by Americans from the 1950s through the 1970s. |
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Overview of Survey Results on the Psychological Adjustment of Adult Adoptees |
Newsgroups
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Newsgroups for Adoptees List of newsgroups on the AICAN website for Adoptees |
Support Network
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Inter-Country Adoptee Perspectives: Post Adoption Support Services What Post Adoption Support Services are Needed and Why do you think this is Important? |
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Inter-Country Adoptee Support Network (ICASN) - Australia Provides support to Adoptees who have been adopted cross-culturally |
Support Network Newsletter (ICASN) /showurl.php?url=143
Behavioural and Emotional
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Adele Horin: "Adoption secret a betrayal" Adopted children raised in secrecy about their origins tend to feel less close to their adoptive parents as adults, and are likely to see them as controlling and uncaring, new research shows. |
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Adopted Teens Face Higher Risk for ADHD and ODD We have wondered for a long time whether children who were adopted in infancy are at increased risk for psychological problems. More than just "a negative teenager," a child with ODD, oppositional defiant disorder, is persistently hostile and disobedient. |
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Disorders are more likely in adopted teenagers Adolescents adopted as infants are twice as likely to have behavioral disorders as those who are not adopted, according to research published Monday that is the deepest analysis yet of the larger mental health burden carried by some adopted children. |
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US Teens Adopted As Infants Appear To Have Moderately Increased Odds Of Mental Health Problems (Science News) Although most adopted American teens are psychologically healthy, adoptees appear to be at greater risk for emotional and behavioral problems than non-adoptees, according to a new report. |
Foster Care
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Adopt us, foster teenagers urge in ad campaign (USA Today) Jelani Freeman entered foster care at age 8 after his mom checked herself into a psychiatric hospital. |
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