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In Part 4, Lynelle and Kristin explored power, identity, and the lifelong structural consequences of intercountry adoption.
In Part 5, they turn toward one of the most emotionally complex areas of adoption: reunion, first families, and what responsibility toward those famili...
In Part 3, Lynelle Long and Kristin Molvik Botnmark examined silence, emotional protection, and why some adoptees eventually distance themselves from adoptive families.
In Part 4, they explore something even more confronting: power. Not only emotional power, but lega...
In Part 2, Lynelle Long and Kristin Molvik Botnmark explored what it means for adoptees and adoptive parents to begin speaking honestly about adoption, loss, and accountability.
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These conversations began after ICAV published the article “What Do I Want From My Adoptive Parents?” What followed was an ongoing exchange between Lynelle Long, a Vietnamese Australian intercountry adoptee, and Kristin Molvik Botnmark, a Norwegian adoptive parent.
The following series of 6 articles are conversations began after ICAV published the article “What Do I Want From My Adoptive Parents?” What followed was an ...