NOVEMBER08

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ADOPTEE NEWS

Adoptee Stories / News

• Why would anyone raised in a loving home be unhappy about adoption?

• Adoption Anger blog and Adoption BEwareness Month

• The Colours in Me: Writings & Poetry by Adopted Children & Young People (book)

• Latika Bourke's story

• 12 Inter-country Adoptees Write: Adoption may be Child Trafficking (English version)

• Photos & feedback from the first AFAAD Gathering

• International Adoption Breakdown into Foster Care

• Pushpa's Blog (Indian adoptee)

• Letter from ACT (Action Against Child Trafficking - intercountry adoptee organisation from Denmark) to Australia

• Missing Woman - Russian adoptee

• Teen's Eye View (Podcast) - Growing up Adopted (Indian adoptee, Biraja)

• No More Nice Playing by Vietnamese adoptee Kev Minh

 

Adoptee Social Events

• NSW: Adoptee Catchup
  Sun 23 Nov 2008 @ 10am, Sydney
  Contact Lynelle for details

• NSW: Teenz Connection Adoptee Calendar

• SA: PASS African Hair & Makeup Workshop
  Sun 16 Nov, 2008 @ 1-4pm

• WA: Korean Adoptee Catchup
  Sat 22 Nov, 2008 @ 7:30pm
  Took Be Gi: Cnr of Hay & Pier St
  Contact Pia to RSVP

• QLD: Adoptee Social Event
  Nov, 2008 (date & time tbc)
  Slaughter Falls, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane
  http://dl.id.au/l.php?l=1
  G13 in Map 158 of the UBD Directory
  Bring: food to grill, a dish to share, drink
  Contact Ilan for further details

• USA: AFAAD 1st Annual Gathering
  7-9 Nov, 2008 Oakland, CA
  Press Release & Flyer

Return to Birth Countries

• Weekly Vietnamese Adoptee Teleconferences (USA) - contact Operation Reunite

• FCC Australia's 1st official China Heritage Tour
  10 - 17 April, 2009
  Further details contact

 

Education

Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• Australian International Adoptee Film Festival - May 2009.  Interested in participating?  Contact Indigo for details

• Jigsaw seeking adoptees to participate in Postcard project: Adoption Secrets

• SBS Documentary seeks Inter-country Adoptees to participate

• Worldwide Korean Adoptee Survey

• NSW Camp Connection 2009
  Seeking Adoptee Mentors to participate
  20 - 22 Mar, 09 @ Lake Macquarie

• Adoptees who have come from illegal adoptions
  Contact Lynelle for participation in an international documentary

• EMK Teen Book seeking submissions
   

Camps

• NSW: Camp Connection 2009 / 2010

• WA: ASFC Cultural Camp
  3 - 5 Oct, 2008

• Holt Adoptee Camps, USA
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News

Books / Films

• Take Two (a book on adoption by BAAF)

• The Colours in Me: Writings & Poetry by Adopted Children & Young People (book)

• The Emotional Experience of Adoption: a psychoanalytic perspective (book)

• Our Family (Indian film on adoption & transgendered females)

Media / News Articles

• US intercountry adoptions fall for 2008

• Feminist lens on adoption

• Judge puts internet baby into temporary care

• Dutch Govt Officials & Hospital deliberately cooperate to embezzle birth certificate to execute illegal adoption

• Black kids in White houses

• Child in US Custody fight adjusts to new country

• Long lost brothers live 6 blocks apart

• Corruption in International Adoptions: Where do babies come from and where do they go?

• Liberia's "orphan" trade

• USA Adoption Alert: Kyrgyzstan

• Another baby sold to Dutch couple by Belgium parents

• To save adopted girl, US couple give her up

• Declaration of Profound Loss (bottom right of page)

• A family bond beyond blood

• Canadian aid worker abused orphans in Haiti

• Australian doctor held for paedophilia in Orissa

• New cultures join the family

• Babies bred for sale in Nigeria

• These Angels aren't telling the whole story

• Adoption paid off but we waited too long

• Why after waiting 2 years for a baby, I gave my adopted son back

• Families on waiting list to adopt child with Down syndrome

• Celebrities who adopt (slideshow from Women's Weekly)

• After only two weeks, an adoptive mother gives a child back

• Baby Inc.

• Adoption's Numbers Mystery

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Philippines program, China visit, Hong Kong & Taiwan program, South Korea & China delegation visit, and responses to Online Petition updates

• Darwin's Peak Group Meeting Communique

Research

• Psychosocial Outcomes within Adopted & Non-Adopted Individuals (Summary)

• Corruption in International Adoptions: Where do babies come from and where do they go?

• Ministry of Justice Quarterly (Netherlands)
  Summary for Nov08

• Intercountry Adoption - Call for Papers for Journal (International Social Work)

• Issues in Gay & Lesbian Adoption due for release Dec09 - Call for Papers (Adoption Quarterly)
   

Legislation

• NSW Adoption Ammendment 2008

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