Trafficked for adoption

More thoughts on this later… Vietnamese authorities have arrested three women and a man for allegedly smuggling newborn babies to China. The suspects were detained with two baby boys, aged one month and one week old, in Hanoi and Ha Tay provinces. Hanoi police said they had also detained an eight-month pregnant woman who confessed [...]

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Students Teach Children Adopted From Vietnam About Vietnam

A group of Vietnamese children who have been adopted by families from the states are learning more about their roots, and it’s all thanks to a group of Smith College students.Every other Friday, 9-year-old Phoebe Jessup is a student at Smith College in Northampton. And her teachers are Smith students. The subjects this week are [...]

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They are still your parents…

This is another one of those smack-worthy sayings. It sometimes falls from insensitive people’s mouths when an adoptee talks about their adoptive parents in a less than glowing way. I’ve heard it said to other adoptees. People have said it to me when I’ve described what my father put me through. It’s annoying and shows [...]

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Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival: Honolulu, October 2008 — Call for submissions!

Monday, Feb. 11, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: KAHI Film Festival Selection Committee, info@KAHawaii.org HAWAI’I KOREAN ADOPTEES HOST FILM FESTIVAL ON O’AHU International Participants to Gather in Honolulu in October Korean Adoptees of Hawai’i (KAHI), a nonprofit organization based on O’ahu, is pleased to announce the first-ever Asian Adoptee Film Festival, to be held in [...]

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Guiltatude

guiltatude – the intentional or unintentional use of guilt and/or gratitude to manipulate behavior; guilt-trip Now that’s a funny one. Kevin at Borrowed Notes posted a blog post that touches on guiltatude and one way in which is it used. This kind of gratitude/guilt-trip seems to be something many adoptees find cast upon them some [...]

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Operation Identity

Operation Identity:Cooperating to Protect the Identity of Vietnamese Orphans Trish Maskew, President of Ethica, recently returned from Vietnam. While in Hanoi, she met with the U.S. Embassy staff, who revealed something that is terribly shocking and upon which Ethica feels compelled to act. U.S. Embassy staff revealed that approximately 85% of the children being placed [...]

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