We hear a lot in the media about celebrities adopting Asian babies, adoptive parents who adopt these babies, and most recently about trafficking of children through adoption. But, we rarely hear from those Asian adoptees. Read what Asian adoptees have to say about adoption and trafficking in this month’s issue of Conducive. Three adoptee authored articles are online now and two more are coming this month.

Here are the links:

http://www.conducivemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82:transnational-adoption-and-the-financialization-of-everything4569&catid=38:innovative-thinking&Itemid=61

http://www.conducivemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:international-adoption-and-the-fight-for-human-rights&catid=37:critical-thinking&Itemid=62

http://www.conducivemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85:trading-in-babies&catid=37:critical-thinking&Itemid=62

Sincerely,

Brielle Nikaido
Associate Editor/Media Director
Conducive
Conducivemag.com
bnikaido@conducivemag.com

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Best regards,
Stephanie

I am the adoptive mother of two wonderful, amazing children from China who I love more than life itself. However, from educating myself on the experiences of international adoptees, particularily transracial adoptees, I know that love is not enough. I want to help my daughters as they walk this difficult path. I am hoping that you will take the time to share with us, what your parents could have done to help with your developing racial identity and the many issues related to transracial/international adoption that you have faced and currently face.

I never thought it was a terrible thing to adopt a child from China, uprooting her from her culture and expecting her to transpalnt in Canada but as time goes on, I see how very selfish I have been in my quest to be a mother. I cried on the way to the airport with my first daughter because I sensed I was doing something wrong taking her from China and I grieved for the culture she was losing. Once I felt that my daughters had been abandoned by both their birth parents and their country and culture but now I wonder if I didn’t indeed cause the ‘abandonment’ by China in my desire to parent. I can’t undo what I have done but I can do better than generations before me and that is what I intend. Listening to people like you allows me a sense of what my girls may experience and feel and for that I am truly grateful. Thank you, June

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John

We who have been hurt and damaged by family separations are speaking out in the hope of preventing future harm. I cannot help wonder, though, as I read your story, if many who read it do th same as they with the stories of mothers who lost children . They say tsk tsk…”that was then; this is now” and things are not done that way now. They tell us that now there is open adoption and that will resolve all the feelings of loss. AS IF! And I can just imagine a contemporary prospective adopter reading your story and saying – well today we are much more aware and we take our children to events with other children of their ethic heritage…as if that cures everything!

And on and on it goes…

It must be stopped! Cultural genocide, babies being stolen and sold because of a demand and unscrupulous baby brokers willing to meet it for a price.

The truth is that it is worse today than it was when I lost my children in the late 60s and you were brought here by one man believing he was doing good. It is far more commerial. A huge worldwide multi-BILLION dollar INDUSTRY…as described in your most recent post…

It is happening in Asia, S. America, Eastern Europe and even Africa. Wherever there is political and/or economic unrest mothers will be exploited, and children kidnapped to meet the demand of the West who are willing to turn a blind eye and pay the brokers fees.