This is not an unusual story. Many of the things described have happened in Korea, Sri Lanka, India and so on. Terre des Hommes still operate as an "aid organisation". This is why many of us don't trust aid organisations. All of these stories are true, even the wildest ones. #Adoptee #AdopteeVoices
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/sep/06/the-scandal-of-bangladeshs-missing-children-podcast-part-one

If I had waited for my rights to be restored, I would never have met her.

#adoptee #AdopteeVoices

Good afternoon fellow adoptees!! Adoptees Unite will be hosting a networking event Sunday, September 3rd from 1600 hrs | 4pm EDT - 1700 hrs | 5pm EDT. Event will be on Zoom. We hope you'll consider joining us. Register below -- the event is free.

#adoptees #adopteevoices #event #adopteesofmastodon

https://lu.ma/4gljnnua

I hope you'll attend the upcoming Adoptee Meetup Hour with Girls Adoption Connect & Adoptees Unite! It'll be September 2nd. See link below to sign up.

https://lu.ma/42om41yt?fbclid=PAAaYHD9zZgwCHBXlMGTm1hsSUdyfLBvn1BLNKqMiVDCnTI7SpT-xb4toHSEM

#adoptees #adopteevoices #adopteesconnect #adopteemeetuphour

Adoptees Unite is now offering FREE coaching sessions for adoptees!! Please see our Instagram [linked in our bio here] for more information or to sign up.

#adoptees #adopteevoices #coachingsession #freeservice #adopteesonly #adopteesofmastodon

Today, we'd like to take a moment to remember fellow adoptee Landon Malobertie. View this post and others on our Adoptees Unite Instagram page linked in our bio.

#adoptees #adopteevoices #inmemoriam #memorial

We're delighted to announce that Adoptees Unite will be joining Korean-German adoptee, SunMee in creating a FREE space to discuss adoptee mental health & healing. Please learn more in the cards below. We're happy to answer any questions you may have, & hope to see you there.

Sign up via the link below:

https://lu.ma/r1t834yz

#adoptees #adopteevoices #adopteementalhealth #adopteesofmastodon

Today I, and other representatives from Adoptionspolitisk Forum, a Danish anti-adoption ngo, joined the anti-racist and anti-capitalist Nørrebro Pride march, in Copenhagen. We were also given the opportunity to speak, at the event. Two of our boardmembers gave a stirring speech calling for solidarity from our QTBIPOC community. Asking the LGBTQIA+ community to include us and stop advocating for adoption. #AdopteeVoices #Pride

What - if anything - do you as an adoptee wish non-adoptees | APs | anyone else would ask you personally about your adoptee experience? And why is that important to you?

#adoptees #adopteevoices #questions #adopted

Men der findes faktisk også adoptanter som har fattet at det ikke handler om dem. En af dem har startet en underskriftindsamling. #Adoption #AdopteeVoices https://adoptanttanker.dk/index.php/uvildig-undersoegelse/

The Danish adopter led interest organisation Adoption & Samfund, has commented on the ongoing concerns about the legalities of Denmark's inter-country adoptions, for the past 50 years. They are very concerned about all the victims of illegal practices, including themselves. They demand full investigations into all inter-country adoptions as well as financial assistance in searching for first families.

#AdopteeVoices #ListenToAdoptees https://adoption.dk/hemmeligheder-i-adoptioner-skal-frem-i-lyset/

Coming out of the adoption fog—leaving behind fear, obligation, guilt—was a long, complicated, beautiful journey.

My story @medium

#adopteevoices #adoptee #adopteerights

https://mindystern.medium.com/coming-out-of-the-fog-bd6891506ba1

This never gets old #Adoption #AdopteeVoices #FuckCisHetNormativity

Via my old, now deleted Twitter profile, I tweeted about the systematic problems with adoption, for years. I managed to convince some people that adoption is not the fairytale story they thought it was. #adopteevoices

@ishe I’d spent 48 yrs thinking I was alone when I most certainly wasn’t. I never knew there were so many other #adoptees who were hurting & grieving. Finding support & receiving validation from other adoptees COMPLETELY changed my life. I can’t even articulate the diff it made hearing others admit to feelings that society refuses to allow us to feel. & that it shames & PUNISHES us for feeling. /end #adoption #AdopteeVoices

“Ppl want me to relieve them of the burden of feeling morally wrong, which is why they are desperate for me to tell them it’s possible to ethically source children, that it’s okay, desirable even, to engage in systems fundamentally racist, classist, misogynist, ableist, & colonialist.”

A must read piece on #adoption , written by an adult #adoptee I deeply respect & admire. #AdopteeVoices https://adoptionpolitics.substack.com/p/ethically-sourced-children?publication_id=1186818&isFreemail=true

• A souvenir slammed as 'white savior Barbie' has some Chinese adoptees reconnecting

#Barbie #adoption #AdopteeVoices #ChineseAdoptees

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/souvenir-slammed-white-savior-barbie-chinese-adoptees-reconnecting-rcna96692

Probably a good thing they didn't include this Barbie in the movie.

#Barbie #Adoption #Adoptee #Adopteevoices #BarbieMovie

Later on, when the child struggles to bond with their new family, they are sometimes diagnosed sometimes called oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)*.
I think we need to stop diagnosing the children and start diagnosing the adults. Slap a diagnosis on the child trafficking industrial complex and call it CAPITALISM. 2/2

#adoptee #adopteevoices #adoption

*thank you for informing me of that term @corsent

Isn't it funny how we tell pregnant people how essential it is to bond with their unborn baby. Talk to it, feed it, love it. Apparently a fetus can hear your voice from about 15 weeks.
Yet when the child trafficking industrial complex wants their baby supply, all of that suddenly becomes less important than money, race and status. 1/2

#adoptee #adopteevoices #adoption