Tag: identity
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After 5 decades in Sweden, 9 Korean adoptees to visit Gwangju seeking their birth families
By Kang Hyun-seok Link to story
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Christianity Today: Every Adoptee’s Worst Nightmare
By Isabel Ong and Jennifer Park Link to story
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Smithsonian Magazine: This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records May Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift
By Nina Strochlic Link to story The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the complicated legacy of their evacuation Babies on plane seats during Operation Babylift in April 1975 Jean-Claude Francolon / Gamma-Rapho via…
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Notre Dame Magazine: Making sense of identity
A sister I never knew upended my understanding of myself, my birth family and my Korean heritage. By Darragh Hannan Link to story
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The Juggernaut: The Missing Stories of South Asian Adoption
For decades, thousands from the subcontinent were adopted abroad, mostly by white famlies. Why have they been forgotten? by Siobhan Neela-Stock This story is paywalled. LINK TO STORY.
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Newsweek: Woman Abandoned as Baby Gave Up on Finding Birth Family, Until She Got Text
By Jack Beresford Link to story
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The National Herald: The fourth annual Greek adoptee reunion a winner in Las Vegas
By TNH Staff FRANKLIN, TN Dozens of Greek-born adoptees and their families from across the USA and Greece gathered June 19-21 in fabulous Las Vegas for three days of fun, fellowship, and connection. The annual event was hosted by the Eftychia Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that helps, free of charge, Greek adoptees searching for…
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Big Issue: Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their families before it’s too late
By Isabella Mcrae Link to story. Marie Maubouche has always felt a close connection to her Vietnamese roots, and she wants to learn more. Image: Supplied Marie Maubouche was born in Saigon in October 1971 and was left on the steps of an orphanage when she was two days old. It was during the Vietnam…
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Havana Times: El Salvador children demand the right to know their origins after separation from war
By Edgardo Ayaya Link to story After a DNA test confirmed the family connection, New York resident Sarah Kanfer traveled to El Salvador in November 2024 to reunite with her mother, Eusebia Portillo. The reunion is one of several cases in which children were separated from their parents during the Salvadoran civil war and fraudulently…
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