FEBRUARY09

Attached is recent news in the adoption arena that is relevant to inter-country adoption.

For older news, go to ARCHIVES
 

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

Adoptee Stories / News

• Search Information for Hong Kong Adoptees (by Anna)

• Meeting my Mum (by DanielC, Sri Lankan adoptee)

• Susanne Brink passes away (Korean adoptee)

• Cumberland Law Review 39:1 Inside Story of An Adoption Scandal (on Preet Mandir)

• Lisa Marie Rollins (founder of AFAAD) is named "Innovator" by Colorlines

• Interview with Vietnamese adoptee film maker Kim Noonan and his film Running Dragon (trailer)

• Caring Chinese Families rescue impoverished Aussie Orphans

• Vanessa searching for her biological parents

Books

• Search for Mother Missing (book by Korean twin adoptee)

• The Colours in Me: Writings & Poetry by Adopted Children & Young People (book)
  Book Launch for 16 Feb09 - London UK

Adoptee Social Events

• NSW: Teenz Connection Adoptee Calendar

• NSW: Social Lunch & TAFP Event Planning
  Sat 7 March @ 11am
  Venue: Parklea (closest train station is Blacktown)
  RSVP to Lynelle

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event (sponsored by NSW DoCS & the NSW Committee on Adoption and Permanent Care)
  Sat 30 May, 2009 @ Parramatta
  Contact Lynelle

• VIC: Social Event Lunch
  Sat 28 Feb @ 12 noon
  Venue: By Korea
  Address: 222 La Trobe St, Melbourne
  RSVP to Jessica

• VIC: Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event (sponsored by Monash University)
  Sat 13 June, 2009 @ Monash Uni
  Contact Dominic

• SA: Relationships Australia PASS
  8 Week Support Group Evenings for Adopted People focusing on Adoption, Identity & Belonging
  9 Feb - 6 Apr, 09 @ 6:30-8:30pm

Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event 2009
  Interested in participating as a volunteer or do you have a film you wish to show?  Contact Indigo for details

• ICASN Perspective Paper - if you'd like to participate in the next paper, our topic is "Parenthood".  Contact Lynelle for details

Camps

• NSW: Camp Connection 2009 / 2010
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Journals / Films

• Australian Journal of Adoption

Media / News Articles

• Michigan Appellate Court honours lesbian Illinois adoption

• Mother sells newborn to pay hospital bill

• 2 Adopted children abandoned daily

• AGD scours India on adoption kidnap trail

• Rick Smolan: A girl, a photograph, a homecoming

• Foreign Correspondent: Stolen and Sold

• Australian Families caught up in India adoption scandal

• Vietnamese orphans for sale

• US wants transparent cooperation with Vietnam in adoption

• Many Westerners are adopting children brought or stolen from their parents

• Report suggests Reproductive Technologies can learn from Adoption

• More Australians adopting from overseas

• Adoptions in Australia at all time low

• Korea and Adoptions (response to Korea Aims to end Stigma of Adoption and Stop "Exporting" Babies)

• Red thread or slender reed: deconstructing Professor Bartholet's Mythology of International Adoption

• Satara to Spain: Grandma wants adoption probed

 

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Updates on Native Thailand Tour 2009; Delegation Visit to India; Thailand 2009 Quota;

QLD Government Adoption Legislation

• New Adoption Laws for QLD

Research

Education

• NSW: PARC Adoption Connections in Wagga Wagga 18 Feb 2009

• SA: PASS seminar 17 Feb 2009
  Insights into adoption: the relationship between birth mother and adoptive mother of the same child

• Ethica Webinars for Prospective Parents
  Feb 25 Adoption Fraud - what to look out for in international adoptions
  Mar 18 How to chose an ethical international adoption agency
  Apr 8 The Hague Convention - 1 year later, the USA successes and drawbacks

• Input needed for: Transracial Adoptive Parenting Initiative - Canada Ontario

Conferences

• Centre for Family Connections
  4th International Action Conference on Post Adoption Services
  23 - 25 Feb, 2009
  Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge, MA, USA

• PACT
  True Colors I: Putting together the pieces of the Transracial Adoption Puzzle
  Jan 10 & Jun 13, 2009
  Oakland, CA, USA