The AdopTwins
A podcast from two adoptees about life, loss, moving on, and growing up.
New blog post https://adoptwins.com/2024/01/17/single-parent-adoptee-the-holidays/
Single Parent Adoptee & the Holidays The holidays are hard for many people. There are plenty of reasons to not be happy during the holidays. I for one as an adoptee and a single mom really struggle. As an adoptee I’ve known loss…
https://adoptwins.com/2023/12/27/mama/
Mama “You had me feel the world The breath you have created Today more than usual I want to be held in your arms What is higher than anything above the ground What is wider than anything beneath t…
Hello all... the AdopTwins will be back in 2024. Be excited, lots in store.
A lot of people have been asking, "How was your trip?", " I can't wait to hear about your trip!", "Did you find out anything to help you find your family?" Well... I have thoughts. But I certainly have a lot more to process through. But it's a start.
Back to the Motherland Much of my life I didn’t want to go back to Korea. I didn’t want to admit that you’re right I wasn’t born here. I didn’t want to go back to a place that didn’t w…
Day 3 is underway and I have feelings about this Motherland trip.
Well it's November 1st the start of yet another . I knwo Billy and I feel different on a lot of things when it comes to adoptiong and personally for me this is my 3rd year of reconizing this month. I've felt pretty burnt out in life lately so I wasn't sure how much I was going to participate. But this article I read struck me. So I'd like to share it with you all now.
“True love allows, honors and appreciates.” If adoption meant true love, there would be no secrets, lies, money, manipulation, ego or control. Love cannot grow in the presence of these – “attachment is the near enemy of love.” https://www.myadopteetruth.com/blog/attachment-isnt-love-even-in-adoption?fbclid=IwAR2hNrOdds0VdiZv5ZuOjAPBKXUp-RpblQVwlF8QxHUXt86VMzYM4_Ov9K4
In South Korea, overseas adoption became a method of resolving the issue of inadequate welfare for those in poverty, abandoned children, and single mothers by sending Korean children overseas. Many children were shipped off to the US “in the guise of orphans,” even when they were known to have parents. This was also a business that earned the government foreign currency. The Korean adoptees represented an issue that American society had to wrestle with. “Answering the question of what Korean children symbolized had a major impact on how Americans defined race, nationality, citizenship, and family.”
[Book review] Why did Americans adopt S. Korean children in such astonishing numbers? Professor Arissa Oh’s new book explores the political and economic factors behind mass adoption
FYI a change in name for one of the co-hosta
Today is the Those of us that are international adoptees let us never stop fighting for our rights to be treated fairly as citizens to the country we were brought to.
Happy Saint Patrick's Day to those who celebrate
They may treat us like we can be bought and sold, but we are human beings and deserve to be treated as such. So it may be but let's remember that adoptive parents are not consumers as we are not commodities.
Celebrating our 1st year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. We could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉
to those who celebrate!
to all female identifying people in the community!
May we all have an opportunity to find our Mother Language if it is something we decide we want to do.
Our hearts are broken. And to know some that survived the Michigan State University shooting also survived the Oxford High shooting or Sandy Hook shooting tells you just how broken our system is. Let's pass laws that keep those living here safe.
To all those touched in one way or another by Childhood cancer on this and every day we hugs and well wishes.
Here's one more for you
Still need a for a certain type of person with a certain type of who would rather try to laugh at their misfortune than cry about it all the time?
"Kim added, “The meaning of the term ‘normal family’ should be changed. Any family is normal as long as the members are happy. A family with parents and children that abuse each other is not normal. A child raised by a single mother, a single father, grandparents or any other guardian can be just as happy as any other child [from a nuclear family] and we need to realize that.” Perhaps if the definition begins to change, less kids will be given up for adoption. https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/03/28/culture/features/single-father-Sarang-birth-registration/20210328153300693.html
A single father's battle to help Korea's unregistered children Being a single mother in Korea comes with its own difficulties, but for single fathers, it’s an entirely different story. Before 2015, it was near impossible for single fathers to register their children without the child’s mother, because ...
This we send hugs and well wishes.
We’re here Podfest Multimedia Expo!!!!!!
Oof! Finally on my way to .