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by Anonymous
Trigger warning: This piece contains frank discussions of suicide, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and recovery.
I want to talk about suicidality.
Sometimes it feels like the ultimate elephant in the room when it comes to mental health, but especially when it comes to adoption. At the end of the day, we know it’s more common i...
On May 21, a number of us presented in a global 2-part webinar on the topic of Preventing & Responding to Illicit Intercountry Adoptions. The webinar was a joint collaboration between Child Identity Protection (CHIP),
By Durga Saraya, adopted from India to the Netherlands, researcher in archives and adoption
As a researcher in the field of archives and adoption, I wanted to understand what has been recorded about us as adoptees and about the adoption ...
by Tobias Hübinette, born in South Korea, adopted to Sweden, academic
AbstractIn October 2021 the Swedish government committee of inquiry the Adoption Commission was appointed which handed over its final re...
In Part 5, Lynelle and Kristin reflected on reunion, first families, and what responsibility toward those families might actually mean.
In this final part, they ask perhaps the most difficult question of all: Can truth strengthen relationships rather than...