Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists 1

by Janine Myung Ja
Publication Date: 23/06/2015
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Ever wondered what it's like to be adopted? This anthology begins with personal accounts and then shifts to a bird's eye view on adoption from domestic, intercountry and transracial adoptees who are now adoptee rights activists. Along with adopted people, this collection also includes the voices of mothers and a father from the Baby Scoop Era, a modern-day mother who almost lost her child to adoption, and ends with the experience of an adoption investigator from Against Child Trafficking. These stories are usually abandoned by the very industry that professes to work for the "best interest of children," "child protection," and for families. However, according to adopted people who were scattered across nations as children, these represent typical human rights issues that have been ignored for too long. For many years, adopted people have just dealt with such matters alone, not knowing that all of us—as a community—have a great deal in common.

ISBN:
9781501487965
9781501487965
Category:
Adoption
Publication Date:
23-06-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Against Child Trafficking USA

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This book should be read by everyone because the voices come from each continent from adopted people and people who are separated because of adoption. The raw truths and uniqueness about each experience that these people endured are something that should be read so that understanding and compassion will start to happen. What does it feel like to be trafficked for adoption purposes? Where everyone sees it as a beautiful act thus dismissing the real issue of a violation of human rights? What would you do? You will read it here.

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