Goa’l “First Trip Home” event 2016
2016 trip: https://www.goal.or.kr/content/global-overseas-adoptees-link-first-trip-home-2016 Main Goa’l page: https://www.goal.or.kr
All posts tagged: 2016
Kad nation and isolation
If Korean adoptees were a country, it would be around the 190th largest, with a population bigger than Samoa or Guam. In a very physical sense, we are each part of a KAD nation. And yet, one of the strongest characteristics of our individual histories is extreme isolation. We were aliens in the truest sense of the word – dropped from space into a foreign world. We do not grow up together. We are not […]
Support adoptees by not supporting adoption
Or said another way, support programs to keep families intact. This article provides a nice summary of what’s wrong with plans that support international adoption. come up with an international child and family welfare initiative, which focuses on keeping children with their parents, their extended families or in their communities, instead of a plan focused on adoption that takes away these children from their parents or their communities. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-ligtvoet/not-again-yet-another-uni_b_10995986.html
Now playing second base for the Yankees
Rob Refsnyder. Has a kad sister. Good write-up in NY Times.
KAD ‘Top Chef’ winner interview
‘Top Chef’ winner Kristen Kish interview on NBC America. In the interview, it sounds like a lot of adoptees reached out to her, though the article doesn’t say it. The video link on the nbc page seems very slow, here is a direct one:
My Alien, Myself
Korean Adoptees are aliens. Not in the “immigrant” sense, but actually in the sense of a being from another planet. — By the time you are a few months old, you know everyone in your family, especially your mama. Within a few years, you have a very clear understanding of your world and what is “normal”. Right in the middle of all that, you are snatched to another universe where nothing makes sense. The words […]
Korea Ranks 3rd for Adoptions to U.S. in 2015
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/05/09/2016050901480.html “We need to overcome the stigma against unmarried mothers and provide support so they can raise their children on their own.”
DNA used to find military father’s family
And a reunion. http://www.wfmynews2.com/features/triad-woman-to-meet-long-lost-sister/265233346
50+ Attendees for Holt “First Wave” Reunion
As told by Allen Majors. First wave happened over 50 years ago, late 1950s to early 1960s. Holt “First Wave” Reunion June 2016 – by Allen Majors
Death, re-homing, re-abandonment
When adoptees say adoption is complicated and have trouble supporting it, the below are the top reasons why. This kind of thing can’t be eliminated, and even the solutions cause more problems. Sadly, the adoption agencies are about as trustworthy for self-policing as wall street banks. Maryland Father kills adopted Korean son. “[The father] said he hadn’t bonded much with his new son.” http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Maryland-Father-Charged-in-Adopted-Sons-Death-Due-in-Court-353031931.html Adopted kids go missing after being given away by adoptive parents. […]