Video series of DANakaDAN’s reunion
very professionally done set of videos. he’s also a rapper:
Month: July 2016
Support adoptees by supporting family-based care, not orphanages
amazing speech. interesting details: * approx 80% of children in orphanages are not orphans * children raised in orphanages are 500x more likely to commit suicide, and 40x more likely to have a criminal record. * even assuming the very best orphanage, these children re-experience the cycle of abandonment every 8 hours when workers go off-shift With a happy ending involving family-based care. Cambodia won’t be faced with the false dilemma of leaving kids in […]
“Woman Warrior” indeed
how cool is a kad woman martial arts expert? you can really see the kind of physical shape elizabeth guidara is in in the pic. http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/740887/female-air-force-officer-looks-to-take-on-marine-martial-arts-course.aspx and a great interview with her on the rambler, highly recommended. She shows in the interview she has an overflow of brains, too. http://therambleradhd.podbean.com/e/episode-325-elizabeth-guidara/ === links to The Rambler (all the same episodes, just putting them all in case of link breakages and different phones): http://therambleradhd.podbean.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rambler/id1073467214?mt=2 https://soundcloud.com/therambleradhd https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifrzrfn3tybmxongaj6bypbv3xm […]
KAD reaction to light sentence given to Hyunsu’s murderer
This was a facebook post that fully captured the feelings of kads after hyunsu’s murderer was given a light sentence. There is explicit language below, but it is in line with the sentiment. The writer is a kad and a Marine, and i have never seen him swear in his posts before this one. === 7/19/2016 is a sad day to be a Korean Adoptee. Hyunsu was beaten to death by his “Deadly Dad!” And […]
12 Years in Death of Adopted Special-Needs Son
The death is a tragedy. The light sentence is a farce (at the bottom of the sentencing guidelines, potentially 4 years with “good behavior”). But what makes you want to punch someone is how many people involved in the adoption failed, because the child was the least important part of the entire transaction. his military doctor suggesting that he go off his ptsd meds so that he can pass the drug test. “Helping” someone with […]
Rising French chef Pierre Sang Boyer
Bringing his birth roots to his adoptive country – French-Korean fusion.
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
3 month Korea program for adoptees
Sounds like a great deal and an excellent experience. 9 weeks in korea including housing for not much money, via Inje Institute for International Human Resources) International Korean Adoptee Program. http://www.home.inje.ac.kr/~iiihr/xe/
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